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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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INFORMIX AUTO INDEX

When no suitable index is created, the optimizer does an "auto create index" for the query. This proposed index should be printed out to the online.log to help the admin to create the optimized indexes for the queries.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
10 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Write Failed Lock Escalation Attempts to Master

Currently, when Lock Escalation succeeds, a message is written to the Master Log with details. However, when a Lock Escalation attempt fails (due to a timeout or deadlock), nothing is written. This sort of timeout or deadlock can be difficult to d...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code

Please consider to include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code in the error message. For example, the below error message displays only the Adabas Response Code 9 but does not display the subcode. As per Adabas Messages and Codes Manua...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save changes in JGATE without having to connect

In JGATE for DVM, if an advanced parm is modified, JGATE does not allow the change to be saved without a successful connection. In our environment, we do not have access to the passwords, as they are stored as encrypted passwords in the DVM Global...
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAW Lifecycle Snapshot allow for incremental migration of worksheets with Action Buttons

Scenario: Client has many PAW workbooks each with Action buttons which navigate to other workbooks. Problem: If client wants to change only one workbook, they are unable to migrate only this workbook as the navigation links which reference this up...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Remove Workflow Validation Dropdown when there are no validations for an Action

When you include Guidance text on a stage of a workflow it automatically includes a dropdown for validating the actions that can take place on the workflow. In a lot of cases the actions do not have validations so these dropdown menu items serve n...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration