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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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Automatic update statistics triggered after n sequential scans

Background/automatic "update statistics low" for tables after nth sequential scan
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable profile filtrering by connection type identifying remote requester

I need to pick up only the queries which come in from remote requesters thru DRDA and which is the remote requester. At the moment I can only identify through the DISTSERV plan and maybe DSNTIAUL . Query Monitor doesnt show from which remote reque...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Post profit&loss automatically in Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Controller Classic there is a functionality in import specifications to transfer profit&loss automatically to a P&L account in the balance sheet. This functionality does not exist in the WEB import. We would like to see this func...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

It should be easier or possible to adjust more properties when in page prview mode

It should be easier or possible to adjust more properties when in page prview mode: It now is very hard or even difficult to select the correct property and edit it. As an example: try to add a title to a chart when in the previe mode
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC

The feature request has been submitted earlier. Re-submitted the request again via RFE tool to track on the status. Can you please provide an update. CQ# idsdb00249320 RTC# 23793 Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC Need support for do...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Elements with just one hidden parent show up as Orphans( trashing UI selection)

Elements that roll up into Hierarchies that the users have no access are being displayed as orphans and (even though they are not) This seem to be due to the fact that some parents of the elements are hidden via security and other parents are not....
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release