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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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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.

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CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Increase data audited in regards to emailing to be able to answer IBM License Audit truthfully

Audit information needs to be able to provide the number of report recipients. This is part of IBM Licensing Audits. Currently customers can only data-mine Mailserver Logs, if that information is included.Or buy inconclusive Admin Software like Mo...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable create index during prime time

We are running 24/7 banking applications and are unable to create an index during peak times. One reason for this behaviour might be APAR PK74729 resulting in a timeout for the create index command when packages are active. But we also get conflic...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automate Online Reorgs

Currently, automatic reorgs can only be performed offline. The additional functionality we are looking for would be the ability to perform automatic in-place/online reorgs. The benefit of that is users still have full table access during the proce...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Ability to expand a Package and manipulate the items within that Package when added to a Data Module

In Cognos Analytics you have the ability to add a Package to a Data Module.It would be useful if we could expand the Package down to its Namespaces/Dimensions/Query Subjects/Query Items.Having the package expanded could mean that users would have ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Convert Log "Raw" data into SQL Statements

archecker and onlog should be able to output analyzed onlog raw information and convert it to SQL Statements
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

search for module/package when adding metadata to report

add search capability to 'add file' dialog. Let me search for metadata (module/package) rather than manually looking through folders
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to view attributes in PAX or PAW Cube Viewer (not just via hierarchies).

The cube viewer in PAX has the ability to “show attributes” in a cube view (see attached screen shot). Can this functionality be added to the regular cube viewer in PAW and a PAX Exploration?
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists