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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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log capture from Read only secondary / updatable secondary

Currently I can on;y read log data from primary for CDC. I woule like to request I read the transaction logs from read only secondary server (and not primary) as Informix source for CDC and apply to target.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Printing Uses User Credentials & Not Service Account

All printing requests to printers are sent using the account that the Cognos service is started against. This causes an issue for users who collect their printed output by providing a PIN. Their PIN relates to their own account and not the service...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limiting functions allowed on particular DDF alias

Company security policy require some functions be segregated by network firewalls / zones to ensure only required devices can access them. For example if I could create a new DDF listener modify DDF ALIAS(DB2SSEC) SECPORT(14802) network firewalls ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DVM Studio parser needs 64-bit support

Mac users are limited to installing the DVM plugin on their workstations. MacOS 10.14 is the last version that supports the current 32-bit application. The plugin will not install on an OS beyond 10.14.
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support for API / Object Storage for OpenPages Storage.

The idea to support Cloud based storage services that offer API integration options, such as Amazon S3, Azure's File Storage services API, Dell EMC S3 extension, etc. Integration with the storage lifecycle features would be useful.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration

Support is required in the DSNTINST CLIST for multi-part dataset aliases

Our DB2 systems use multi-part (qualifier) aliases for various datasets that are normally sub-system specific. e.g. the BSDS and active log datasets for a DB2 system follow the format DSN.<ssid>.BSDS01 DSN.<ssid>.LOGCOPY1.* where DSN...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Select all the values in a Value Prompt by mouse right click and dragging the cursor

Users do multi-select in value prompt and 10.2.1 used to allow mouse right click and then just drag to multi select records. We will like to have same behavior in 11.1.X with value prompt in reporting.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Cases - allow ability to change default option of hiding unselected cases in Data View

SPSS 28 automatically hides cases that don't meet the selection criteria in Data View. There is an option to show unselected cases (like in older versions) but you have to set it each time a new instance of SPSS is opened.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration