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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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enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

OPL model generation with multithreating

the OPL model generation uses only 1 core and it takes time.with a pre analysis of the model it could be possible to parallelize some of the model generation.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

OPL interface for Matlab

Would be great to have not only a Matlab interface to CPLEX, but to OPL as well. It would facilitate. model deisgn (.mod) using OPL (way easier than working directly with CPLEX. model modification, re-run, post/pre-processing computations using a ...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

CDC capture enhancement for "catch up" mode.

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. In order to bette...
5 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

RDS Relationship Explorer

I was hoping the relationship explorer would show that a RDS is related to another one, without necessarily drilling down into the individual values in that RDS. A good use case would be the interrelatedness between Alpha 2 Country, Alpha 3 Countr...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

User Preference on Dimensions

In TM1 Web, we have previously setup user preference cubes so we can default Department or Business Unit dimensions to a users preferred Dept/BU. Or setup to write back to the cube based on the last dimension element they used. It made for a bette...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Encrypt CAMPassword for parameterized URL

Using a parameterized URL to open dashboards, reporte, ... including login credentials, the CAMPassword value can only be passed as plaintext value. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/parameterized-url-perform-login-and-open-dashboard-or-report For...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration