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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add lock wait time to oncheck

If oncheck encounters a row/table is locked it immeditely returns error: ERROR: Could not obtain lock for <database>:<user>.<table> It would be useful to have an option for user to select lock wait time for example: oncheck -cDI ...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Prevent deadlocks between RTS externalization and ALTER activity

We occasionally experience deadlocks between our application processes that perform alters to rotate partitions on partitioned tablespaces and RTS externalization (specifically correlation ID 014.RTSTST00). We would like to see the locking between...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Currently we are failing when we send data file having more than 10MB in size to Cloud object storage via DataStage 11.7

Here is error we are receiving on DataStage 11.7 log (PRDCEDPDSENG01.W3-969.IBM.COM) . PutFile_COSBucket,0: Fatal Error: CDIER0410E: Error in step=REST, cause=com.ibm.e2.provider.ws.exceptions.RESTWSRequestException: CDIER0905E: The REST step foun...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Event Rules in IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL

There are multiple options (Copy Event, Disable, Edit, Rename, Delete, Generate Event, Properties) available in PDA through the Netezza Administrator tool. However, in the "IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL" portal, there is just an "Add event...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Shortcut access from studios

Today its is posible to create a dashboard/report/datamodul when clicking on the breadcrumps to the right of the dataset/datamodule shortcut. But if you use new dashboard/report/datamodule you cannot see the shortcut !?
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

turn off intent

Currently, if we have "seasonal" intents, we have to pull them out and save them somewhere. There is no way to turn them off at certain times of the year. It would be helpful to have an on/off switch for intents. Better yet would be a means to hav...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Incorporate full Business Entity view in the OpenPages 8.0 UI

It helps users see all business entities, instead of having to drill down in the current tree view. This feature was part of the old UI, which Brighthouse still uses. Business users want the full Business Entity view, in order to switch to the new...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered