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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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Entity Identifier converted to String in Match360 Data Explorer to allow for complex searches

We've come across the limitation in Master Data Explorer's advanced search, where entity identifier with a condition of "starts with" or "ends with" breaks upon searching. The reason - as explained by Master Data Explorer Development Team - is tha...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

informix HQ

Current version of Informix HQ is not able to trap and sent alert for engine in block state.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...

adding a question prompt like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude would be wonderful and functional instead of 3 months of stonewalling us with a million options NOT A PROMPT AND JUST A WASTE OF TIME...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Additional ciphers needed for NSS library

Hello, If possible, please add additional ciphers to the NSS library for the following Cognos version: 11.1.7 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 The additional ciphers are: TLSv1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 We...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics: Dynamic variance calculation on "displayed" members in a view

In an exploration, there is the possiblity to add a member calculation to calculate a variance between two elements.However, these elements have to be manually picked and a "hard-coded" formula is then generated.We want to have the possibility to ...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow SPL variables to be used to define index directives.

Inside a stored procedure allow the index name for a directive to come from a variable:...define v_bs_index varchar(100);define p_id like tBS.id,...let v_bs_index = ( select cfg from Cfg where group = 'INDEXES' and name = 'TBS_INDEX' )...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Wrap Dims in PAX

Hi, my DB has 21 dimensions. Therefore in Planning Analytics Excel that means my users do not have a FULL view of all the selections in all the dimensions in their exploration view. They have to click left and right in the Overview window pane and...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration