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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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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

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

SETNET32 automatically maintain the SQLHOSTS file

Behaviour in SDK 4.1Fc1 and TC1 is changed . In previous version of windows SDK connectivity details were taken from registry ( setnet32 updates registry) but in SDK 4.10 Fc1/TC1 there is need to setup sqlhosts file apart from setting setnet32 . W...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 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

More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources

More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources. 1. The current IDAA Stored Procedure can add AT for any DB2 tables, only if user has been granted the EXECUTE privilege of SYSPROC.ACCESLL_ADD_TABLES and several related authorizations...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Put fields/Date Items in folders and also mark as hidden in a data module

Some fields in datamodules will be things like surrogate keys, which I dont want users to see or use. Currently I dont see a way to hide them. Additionally when there are a number of fields in a table, it is more logical for users to see these in ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

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