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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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Cannot logically restore a table when restoring smart blobs

System: IDS archeckerActor: Barmenia DBA Team We use archecker to perform table-level-restores. For various reasons it has to be on a point-in-time basis, which is not possible if a table has columns of data type blob.The following error occurs: E...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Document permissions to update Deployment Manager client install when fixpacks or packages are applied to the C&DS server.

User has a existing installation of Deployment Manager client. Either a new package (ex: Modeler Adapters) or a Fixpack is applied to the Collaboration and Deployment Services Server. When the users deployment manager client first connects to the ...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Client libraries size

As explained in the case, we consider the size of the libraries that need to be included are big for the client. For us is a concern that we need to distribute an additional 192MB with our executables. It's our impression that symphony c++ client ...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Reduce the number of Db2 threads when replicating table with XML column

When a table with a XML column is replicated, we observed a high number of SMF Db2 accounting records, one for each row that a have a XML column. The records are due to Db2 threads created by the replication process. As the Db2 SMF records are goi...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Statistics R Essentials doesn't recognize R failure

When SPSS Statistics server execute R script within Statistics Syntax file(.sps), the execution result will always show successful execution regardless if the R script is returning error. While in the job execution log, the log will show the R err...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set time restriction on reporting schedules

When scheduling a report, I would like to designate times when end users are not able to schedule their reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending notifications XA (like) to Kafka

When using a JMS provider you're able to send the notification as part of the XA transaction. For Kafka this is not possible (as per Kafka implementation). Come with a solution so using Kafka for notifications is a usable option (currently not). S...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration