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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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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

Enable a Time out value if an Active CM is unable to contact a configured Standby CM

Enable a time out value if the active CM is unable to reach a configured standby CM for any reason, and unregister the malfunctioning CM from the list of dispatchers
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Another chart idea for new UI

(separate from the suggestion for KRI time series charts) It would be very useful on objects such as issue and risk event to be able to show a simple graphical representation of dates example dates would be Date identified, occurrence start date, ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 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.
almost 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Have FTM Public Views That Mirror Control Center's UI Data Model

The FTM Control Center's operational data model consists of: - Inbound Physical Transmission - Inbound Transmission - Inbound Batch - Processing Batch - Inbound Segments - Transactions - Endpoints - Outbound Batches - Outbound Transmissions - Outb...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Functionality already exists

Set persistence and expiry of MQ messages at the application level

Actor: User needs enhanced features In our company, we do not define queues with persistent, but expect the application has the ability to set it as persistent in the MQMD. Additionally, messages should have a set expiry (not set to infinite). Bot...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Not under consideration

Control Center allows multiple actions to be taken on same payment, and show on the approvals screen

The user is able to take multiple actions on the same payment file. Then the secondary operator is able to approve/deny multiple times, even though only one action is considered.