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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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New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

INFORMIX AUTO INDEX

When no suitable index is created, the optimizer does an "auto create index" for the query. This proposed index should be printed out to the online.log to help the admin to create the optimized indexes for the queries.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Print status in MER message list, like message lock status

Web based printing is enabled and users can print the message from MER UI. However, Users want to have the print status in MER message list, like message lock status. So that users can have the Message Print Status on the MER UI. Without the statu...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Need an onmode option to terminate orphaned, tightly coupled global transactions. Onmode -Z does not address this case.

If a Java application that uses tightly coupled global transactions (such as from Geronimo / WebSphere app servers) abnormally terminates, it may leave the global transaction orphaned on the Informix database server. In this case, an onstat -G wil...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Error Capability should be at least part of the Analytics User License

The capability detailed error, is only part of the Administrator Licence und should be available for all Licences. It is technically possible to assign the capability to regular users, but not allowed due to licence restictions.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Make TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics private , according to the user's security profil

The capability to use TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics is really a highlight in R9. However those subsets a public meaning available to all users. In TM1 there are also private Subsets which are only available to specific users. We need the same ca...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

setup limitations on cpu, memory, workspace and elapstime

Hi, when migrating from Netezza to the new IDAA appliances (Db2 Blue), we saw a lot of new issues popping up. One major issue that is still not solved in v7.5.3, is that we experience a lot of very long running queries in the appliance. Sometimes ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration