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


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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

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

Normal user to monitor the resource usage of this user only

So currently following three ways are not able to meet the requirements: 1) Cluster admin can see the resource usage from explorer dashboard for all users. 2) read only roles also enable to see resource usage from all other users. 3) adding one ne...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Future consideration

IBM Unload doesn't support parameter AT LOCAL for UTC Timestamp columns

In a SELECT statement the parameter AT LOCAL is supported, for example: SELECTDCOLLID ,-- =' ' --CHAR(18)DNAME ,-- =' ' --CHAR(8)TIMESTMP ,-- =' '--TIMESTMPKOMMENTAR -- =' '--CHAR(50)FROM DB2YD0XD.YD01TQR0WHERE TIMESTMP AT LOCAL < '2019-09-26-...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to update DVM Virtual data using Db2

Currently DVM supports the creation of UDTF's on DVM virtual tables. This provides the customer with the ability to use Db2's SQL engine and Read DVM Data. This proposal is to add functionality to DVM to support updating DVM virtual tables using a...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 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

SPSS Statistics R Essentials doesn't recognize R failure

When SPSS Statistics server execute R script within Statistics Syntax file(.sps), the execution result will always show successful execution regardless if the R script is returning error. While in the job execution log, the log will show the R err...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration