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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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Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAw links to PAx sheets too long to work in Excel

the issue we found is that if the link is longer than 255 chars you cannot copy it from PA and drop it into Excel and expect it to work(Excel links balk). We are using a Web based URL shortner, but IBM needs to do that from default as many of thes...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a JobID's column to the table grid_hosts_gpu and show in Job Details page

It would be very beneficial to reporting to see which jobid's are allocated to which jobs when it comes to the GPU assigned. This way, the user can look at the ELIM graphs and know that their job is actually using the GPU in question. Right now, y...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Designer - Fields for Siebel Business Objects or Components returning wrong values

This issues has been experienced on both InfoSphere Information Server 11.5 and 11.7.1.1. After submitting an IBM PMR to try to resolve the issues the final response from IBM Support was: Our Engineering team reviewed the issue and have advised th...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow RESTSERVICEDEFAULT on BIND SERVICE

When using BIND SERVICE to implement new Db2 REST services it would simplify integration with existing change management systems to allow the specification of the default version on the BIND SERVICE. This may be accomplished by using REBIND PACKAG...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

GUI for MX Chaneels

Please Provide GUI for Open/Close/Monitor MX Channels for easy of Access.
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration