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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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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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Infosphere DataStage Operations console - Authentication request

In current world, once you log into operations console it won't timeout until 12 hours by default. If you set LTPA timeout to your preferences, it will ask for the credentials after the timeout once & then, it never asks for credentials again....
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

New a TIFF Correction Report

A TIFF correction Report can assist an FI in identifying TIFF TAGS that have been corrected showing the initial value and the corrected value.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

BAR_RETRY should retry failed dbspace backup instead of complete archive

If you run a whole onbar backup (onbar -b -w -L 0) and have several dbspaces to backup and one dbspace backup failsthe complete archive must be retried. If you run parallel backup (BAR_MAX_BACKUP > 0) you also need to wait untilall dbspaces are...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Make VPSEQT 100 XI-refresh feature delivered in PI59168 available for non-PGSTEAL-NONE pools or objects.

In PI59168, IBM delivered an enhancement for PGSTEAL NONE bufferpools, whereby setting VPSEQT to 100, Db2 would automatically refresh objects that experienced pseudo-close. This rectified a huge issue at our shop where pseudo-closed objects had to...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Security Consolidation

Every User has particulary rights on the organizational dimension. They can see multiples members on differents hierarchy and need to know the total of members they can see. However, users have to made manually consolidation because the security i...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to capture brief description about a Stage in Native Workflow

Hello, With the introduction of Native Workflows, it is possible to create new workflows on the fly. There might be situations where the workflow can get really complex with 'n' number of Stages. In general, the Stage names are expected to be shor...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

Table statistics are zero'd from sysptprof everytime it is not open or there is no sessions accessing it.

Our understanding is that tblspace profile should remain in the records as long as 'onstat -z' is not issued. Besides, we are aware of situations when table profile is reset, while several sessions are still accessing the table. Therefore, we find...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dimension editor should be able to edit system dimensions similar to the way the dimension worksheets allowed it.

Product: Planning Analytics 2.0.7 Because the dimension worksheets for Excel 64 bit no longer works, system dimensions preceded by a brace '}' are only modifiable by using the TI. That is not practical. Dimension Editor (admin users only) should b...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for transformation stylesheets for outbound ACKs

The ability to specify a transformation stylesheet for outbound ACKs in the service framework tasks configurations. Similar stylesheets are supported for transmission and email acknowledgements.
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Abililty for Optim to archive Oracle 12.1 data types UROWID & SQL_PLAN_TABLE_TYPE

We recently had a database that had these 2 Oracle 12 datatypes. We had to mark these tables out of scope: UROWID & SQL_PLAN_TABLE_TYPE
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration