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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Online Constraint name renaming capability

MR0803067232 DBDB2D/S05008 Expand the ALTER-TABLE–Statement with an RENAME-Clause or add a RENAME-CONSTRAINT-Statement which renames the constraint name online.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

insert into table default values

A number of database vendors offer insert into table values() or insert into tables default values;
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

enable queryno for static SQL in cqm tables RFE 126827

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126827 provide query no for static sql in GUI, ISPF and datastores so that it can be saved in cqm tables Use Case customer saves cqm data in db2 ta...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API

Add support for an asynchronous/non-blocking Java API called Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) (https://r2dbc.io/). The R2DBC driver list includes several DBMS, but not Informix. Customer case: In Huge systems with lots of users se...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Synchronization dimensions in different workbook using Applications in Planning Analytics Workspace

Front end issues on IBM PAW interface. Synchronization of dimensions in different workbook using applications in IBM PAW. 1) We would like to submit enhancement request. Synchronization of dimensions in all the BOOKS within one application cannot ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration