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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Encrypting and Decrypting Stored Procedures

Would like Informix to have feature of encrypt the source code for a stored procedure and function.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

Ability to Purge Application Text Records from Deleted Views and Widgets

When you create a view or widget in the TFUI, each instance becomes an Application Text record. Once deleted, the Application Text record stays and becomes an orphan. As development continues, there should be a process (or script) to purge all orp...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Documentation about custom node dialog builder

need documentation about custom node dialog builder. When developing custom nodes with custom node dialog builder, variables such as modelerData and modelerDataModel (SPSS reserved words) are handled, but there is not much documentation on how to ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for automated migrations from Dev environments to Production (CICD Pipeline)

Allow the automation (CICD Pipleine) to be created between migrating development environment updates to production environment. The current process to run Compare Environment, manually export from dev, manually import to production is not conduciv...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Default action when accessing shared URL

IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Filter by measure

Assume a view where in rows we have a projectID dimension and in columns measure dimension. Measure dimension contains numeric and string elements. One of string measures is a picklist "Prjoject Manager". There is a need for a project manager to s...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration