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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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Trap and/or Report running sql query on resource overflow

Currently Informix kills the session before being able to report the running sql on a Memory resource overflow. Possibly the engine has a memory leak or query could be causing the problem.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Track Date last used/accessed for TABLE objects

As more people use EXPLAIN PLAN and BIND_EXPLAIN(ONLY), and EXPLAIN PACKAGE to collect explain data for managing rebinds and package changes, PLAN Tables proliferate. Some customers find the proliferation of explain tables to be problematic. We ne...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add a STOP DB2 mode that cancels connected threads, but not internal processes.

We have struggled with getting a "clean" shutdown of Db2 for years. If we try to use STOP DB2 MODE(QUIESCE), Db2 will not stop. Persistent threads from STCs such as CICS regions, WAS Z servants, and ARS CMOD servers do not "end", so they never all...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Business Entity Overview from Standard-UI to TF-UI

In the standard UI we had the possibility to navigate business entities via Business Entity Overview. In this view the top-level business entities are displayed and a user can drill-down further the hierarchy by un-collapsing the top-level busines...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Zoom functionality(viewer) in SPSS 28

Hello together, it would be great to have an additional zoom function in the viewer as well as in SPSS 28 in general instead of change the font size. So that you can zoom like in the browser with CTRL+ and -. Currently PivotTables settings that we...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Future consideration

Creating Custom Consolidation in Set Editor for PAW/PAX

There is no option to create custom consolidation ( Equivalent to create rollup button in Subset Editor). Some of the rollups for reporting purposes are getting created by end users on the fly for analysis purposes which are not available in the d...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

db2 "export to employee.del of del modified by coldel\t select * from test1"

DB2 Export cannot export data with a two-digit delimiter (\t). If I want to export data separated by \t, DB2 will not be able to support it
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

Enhancement DB2 Connector Stage for Clientuser attributes

An extension is required in the <DB2 Connector Stage> GUI so that the default parameters for Client userid Client Wrkstnname Client applname Client Acctng that are transferred to the Db2 WLM can be overwritten on a customer-specific basis. T...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

MON_GET_CONNECTION is lacking CODEPAGE of connection

A 3rd party application connects to Db2 and we get SQL0302. The 3rd party vendor figures out, it is a double conversion to UTF-8One of the most valuable debugging informations was the codepage of the connection to the database, which is available ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration