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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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Reclaim free space from chunks

Add a command to reclaim the free space (at the end of the chunk) , reducing the file size. This is very useful for cooked files. Just like SHRINKDATABASE at MS Sql Server, but for chunks....
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need to see actual query generated when running a report

The report query generated "Show Generated SQL/MDX" is not the same as the query that is traced on report execution Targeted to Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show unformatted pending reasons with bjobs -UF

Information for PENDING REASONS remains formatted for the command "bjobs -UF [-p|-p0|-p1|-p2|-p3] <jobid>" which makes it hard for scripts to parse the output. Current output: $: bjobs -UF -p3 <jobid> ... PENDING REASONS: Candidate hos...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Optimizer should ignore RTRIM when calculation filter factor

When the optimizer calculates the filter factor for a predicate which uses RTRIM, it just returns the default value. (0.04)It should ignore the RTRIM and use the COLCARD of the column stats instead. Refer to Case: TS001114316
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Need level based indention for Planning Analytics for Excel custom reports

Level based indention is used in Explorations and Dynamic Reports, but not Custom Reports. There is a setting option to use level based indention on Quick Reports, but not Custom Reports.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Login PAX - store credentials

PAX - Without setting up SSO we would like to have an option in the pop up login page to save credentials
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM My Notifications with Affected DB2 Version Information

Currently we subscribe to the IBM 'My Notifications' email (see: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.trb.doc/doc/t0060379.html or https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21686621) so we rece...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Access to statistics like memory, CPU, disk space - presentation in a dashboard

Hello IBM'ers, As explained in support ticket TS010721444. IBM PAoC customers of ours would like to be able to access certain statistics: memory, CPU, the information from the fileshare, etc. Meaning, how much space was used, what is total space, ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration