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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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Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Message WareHouse Power Search of SWIFT Messages (MT and MX)

Currently COGNOS is used to query MT and MX messages. For MT there is a free text search, but the same is not made available for MX messages. In addition, general query performance is slow. Note that I have look at other SWIFT products, and they a...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Session Time out Pop up

We need timeout popup as a warning message that session is about to expire. This will help users in saving time and avoid losing any unsaved changes.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Speed option for table repack

Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Relative Proportional Spreads for multiple quarters and years

Allow relative proportional spread to multiple quarters at once. For example, take Q3 2022 Actuals and spread this to Q1 to Q4 2023 Forecast data.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request For (Configurable) Tree Prompt Behavior

We would like a behavior change to tree prompts, possibly as a configuration option. When a tree prompt is in single-select mode, and when a node is selected, we would like the parent nodes to be permanently greyed out and disabled for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration