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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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Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Allow actions in 'ERROR' status to be automatically rescheduled

It occasionally happens that an action will encounter an error because an incompatible utility is already executing on a given object. For example, when a separate RUNSTATS utility on an object attempts to execute while a REORG on that same object...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow Filtering by Start/End Timestamps on "Autonomic Actions" panel

On panel DAJ$ALRT "Autonomic Actions", it would be very helpful to be able to also allow the user to filter the results by specifying starting and/or ending timestamps. When a user has executed thousands of autonomics actions over time, this would...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow additional filtering on "Maintwindow Actions" panel

On panel DAJ$ALR2 "Maintwindow Actions", it would be very helpful to be able to 'dynamically filter' the results by allowing the user to specify values under the columns headings - very similar to the way that the Admin Tool allows you to do so to...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Support for newer Ubuntu Releases

Only Ubuntu 18.04 is a supported Operating System for SPSS Modeler Server 18.4.But Ubuntu 18.04 is End Of Life since 31 May 2023. (https://ubuntu.com/blog/18-04-end-of-standard-support)Please add support for newer Ubuntu releases (20.04, 22.04, 24...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Planned for future release

Running process from PLAN submit button

The submit button could have a feature that once submitted it would also allow run TI processes just like any other button in Applications. Current workaround is that I have to have a separate submit button, which triggers a set of actions which n...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Math function changes in Db2 12

POWER Built-in function got rewritten and so I am hoping to get a list of all changed built-in functions in Db2 12 so that I can do better testing before going into production.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Interface between CPLEX and .Net CORE 5 on LINUX

We are developing applications using .Net CORE 5. This is a great language to develop solution on either Windows or Linux. We have no issues using CPLEX with Windows as we have the cp_wrap_cpp_dotnet2010.dll running but we miss a Linux version of ...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

Consolidating multiple notifications over a limited period of time

We need to have functionality to consolidate e-mail notifications to users (i.e. consolidating multiple notifications over a limited period of time (e.g. 24 hours) addressed to a single user into one ‘combined’ (e-mail) notification)
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Future consideration