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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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support the configuration of route-maps and filters on BGP setup

We use BGP Setups for connection from IPS serveurs to our switches (client side). We need inter-IPS connections to have better network performances for IPS to IPS data copy. These connections use also BGP protocol. When we add these inter IPS conn...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 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
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New metrics for REST Services

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.
over 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity for Google Big Query

Cardinal Health is trying to move all data warehouse to Big Query. Teradata is in content state. So, it is very important for Infosphere datastage (11.7.0.2) to connect to Big Query. I guess IBM is releasing Big Query connector as part of IIS11.7....
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

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...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Automated dashboard upgrade in PAW

Due to Log4j we did an update to Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.71. Afterwards we noticed the following message when opening an existing dashboard/book: Your Dashboard has been upgraded. Save now to maintain optimum performance. How can we autom...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration