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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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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.

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Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Server Tracking Tool

Mirat | Suits Your IT Asset Discovery Needs Overview For the last several years, companies are moving towards IT diversified environment which includes cloud, virtual, and mobile devices. The companies decided to make a common place for connecting...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

better support for filter capabilities

The Customer manages 100+ DB2 systems, they have to repetatively enter filter commands in the active thread display (so that only the relevant information is displayed) which is often quite different for different Db2 systems. They would like: a) ...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unable to Remove Previous Informix FC version from Windows Programs and Features

I tried to install the Informix Fix Pack in another folder as instructed by IBM support. However the Informix FC version stays the same and there is a an error or bug in uninstalling the previous Informix FC versions from the Windows Programs and ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Is a defect

Expand Above instead of Expand Below when you want to Expand Above instead of Expand Below

In PAX Exploration views - Expand on rows with a TM1 subset that is set to “EXPAND ABOVE”, will expand below… should expand above. Development have stated that this is not a defect. By using the expand above in Architect it sets the subset t...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable to display attribute name in CubeView header by Caption.

When set up CubeView in WorkBook and display the member attributes of the dimension using the attribute display from the selector, the attribute name (column header) will be displayed as the base name, so it is hard to recognize what attribute is ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Alias for page/context elements in a drill through view.

There is no alias display for page/context members in a drill through view on PA Workspace Local release 27.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data between SQL Server databases. However, we would like to improve read scale for our applications using SQL Server AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups. However, CDC does not support databases ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration