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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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Flexibility to Make Attributes Searchable After Creation in Match360

Currently, in the Match360 data model, an attribute can only be designated as searchable during its initial creation. Once the attribute is created and published, it cannot be altered as a searchable attribute. This lack of flexibility restricts t...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Certification of Informix ESQL/Cobol on RedHat Linux 7.2

ESQL/COBOL has not been updated for many years now, but the OS is getting updates regularly. Need ESQL/COBOL to be certified on RedHat Linux as our applications are migrating to this version on Linux soon. Appreciate if you can expedite the certif...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Planned for future release

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

db2cfexp lacks SSL configuration data

db2cfexp is a very valuable tool to save and maybe restore configuration data. I noticed, db2cfexp is not exporting SSL configuration and hence cannot restore it.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Planned for future release

Call REST API triggered from DB

Currently we use external script to call APIs on data in DB and write back the result. Instead of using external script (Python, R, Node JS) to take data from the DB and call REST API and then write back the result to DB, it would be a great impro...
over 5 years ago in Db2 2 Planned for future release

Add possibility to assign cores from the same CCX in AMD CPUs to make use of the same L3 cache.

With a specific 2-core workload we noticed significant performance improvements of about 50% in shorter runtime when both cores reside on the same L3 cache group (CCX) of an AMD EPYC CPU.Therefore it would be very beneficial to be able to have LSF...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Lists and Crosstabs on a Dashboard

There needs to be more control over font size and cell padding for lists and crosstabs on a dashboard. Being able to control font size and cell padding would help to make the lists and crosstabs more visually appealing.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release