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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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SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Line command '?' does not work on all menus, should be made consistent

In the Db2 Administration Tool v12, under the “Db2 system catalog” option, on the “Application Plans” and the “Table Authorizations” menus, the “?” line command does not work like it does on other menus. It returns an “Invalid line cmd” message.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Update multiple quick report connection strings

Need a way to quickly update multiple quick report connection stings at once. Update the current utility to allow multi select files, or select a directory (similar to action button migration) OR allow connection strings to be stored in a cell. 1 ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION statement to allow encapsulation of any DDL command

Currently CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION can be used to encapsulate some DDL statements (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_0483.htm) We would like this to be expanded to include other DDL statem...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Protect (TSM) version 7.1.7 certification with Informix ONBAR 12.10

Customers using earlier versions for TSM (now Spectrum Protect) needs certification of version 7.1.7 or newer with Informix ONBAR 12.10, in order to be able to upgrade the backup infrastructure.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration