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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enhancement of View syscat.bufferpools to show alos stmm bufferpool sizes

When a bufferpool size is set to AUTOMATIC, -2 is being retrieved fromsyscat.bufferpools. But customer wants the current number of pages ofautomatic settings also displayed in syscat.bufferpools. Also a new column insyscat.bufferpools should indic...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Adjusting column status in syscat.tables by synchronizing with column AVAILABLE SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO

Customer mentions that tables which are delivering aSQL1477N should have an inoperative status. But theyhave status 'N' (for normal) insyscat.tables. The only way to retrieve the status of anSQL1477N is to select the column AVAILABLE inSYSIBMADM.A...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataDirect mysql driver not available for zLinux systems for Maria DB connectivity

The ODBC drivers for Maria DB connectors are not available for zLinux systems. By adding this feature all the users who are trying to connect to Maria DB connectors on Zlinux will be able to connect successfully as it will have the mysql drivers.
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Password character check in installation software

Instead of having a list of valid characters displayed in some document/website would it be possible to display them prior to requesting the password for the infosphere datastage accounts. Demand for my secure passwords using special characters i...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
over 4 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Cannot logically restore a table when restoring smart blobs

System: IDS archeckerActor: Barmenia DBA Team We use archecker to perform table-level-restores. For various reasons it has to be on a point-in-time basis, which is not possible if a table has columns of data type blob.The following error occurs: E...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Document permissions to update Deployment Manager client install when fixpacks or packages are applied to the C&DS server.

User has a existing installation of Deployment Manager client. Either a new package (ex: Modeler Adapters) or a Fixpack is applied to the Collaboration and Deployment Services Server. When the users deployment manager client first connects to the ...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Allow Future Values in Data for Time Series Modeling

A beer producer may want to incorporate the Super Bowl as an event in its week-based time series forecasts. The effect could be included in the source data as a flag field, in which 1's are entered for weeks in which the Super Bowl has occurred in...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfol...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration