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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 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

Questionnaire Assessment Notifications

Hi,I am just wondering if there is a way for us to have different email content notifications for the different types of Vendor. With this setup, it can help the business and us to provide more information and to have the flexibility to customized...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF USE CASE: //SYSIN DD * TEMPLATE COPYTEM1 DSN('DBQ1F.&DB..&SN..N&DSNUM..&UQ.') MGMTCLAS FCRET10
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

this request is to hide Link “Select a delivery method” user-dependent (Cognos-Role-Dependent)

While a report is running a pop-up window is provided to the user. In this window a link “Select a delivery method” is shown, which should not be usable to all users.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be ske...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Specify how many records to parse to determine storage type with an Excel file

Currently, Modeler reads the first 50 rows of an Excel file to determine storage. I have seen many customers wish that they could determine the amount of rows to read in - as sometimes they have missing values for the first 100 records, and the st...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

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

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Provide Filter Selection available in FLV within an Activity View listing

Ability to specify and apply a filter within an Activity View listing. Scrolling thru numerous objects in a list within Activity View is not user-friendly. A filtering capability such as exists today in the OP 7 product would be very useful.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Allow to configure Lock/Unlock at Object/Profile level

The Lock/Unlock permission is at a application level. We would like to be able to selectively allow/block that capability by Object Type and/or Profile. There are numerous cases where there exists a need to have more granular control of this feature.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration