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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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Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DVM Query Optimization Utility tool

The SQL Select statement used to define a virtual table or virtual view can be a complex one with multiple levels of JOIN operators, predicates and SQL special functions nested together. It will be handy for developers to have a utility tool that ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CA 11.2 all quick launch hide to be turned off/on

Currently you can hide the quick launch in the portal, when you log back in the quick launch is no longer hidden. Would like have stay hidden until I choose to unhide it.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Enable DVM Studio to be able to quickly capture environment data needed for problem resolution

We are sometimes asked to provide detailed information for a Case we have opened on DVM. Information includes the current build, IN00, trace browse, map definitions and sometimes the underlying data that is causing the issue. If functionality was ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improve existing ZOMBI handling with regards to both SBD and MBD process flows

It will reduce the persistence of ZOMBI jobs in LSF to a shorter time period. Here are the two areas that need improvement. 1) Currently, even though the SBD daemons may be running on a host, a job will remain in ZOMBI status until the SBD is rest...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 Being able to reduce the Content header to show more data

In Cognos 11.2 when users change to the Content view, they complain that the header part uses too much space leaving only about half the screen for the data, if there are more than 5 objects, it is necessary to scroll down looking for those not sh...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Transfer metadata enrichment from one to another exactly similar asset from another connection

If MDE is done on a connected data asset is there a way to transfer all enrichment (e.g., data clsses, auto term assignments, etc.) to another connected data asset with exactly same metadata b ut different connection?
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration