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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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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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Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Apply number format when editing a cell in PAW

We are using the german number format ("." as thousand separator and "," as decimal separator) in PAW. The format works fine for non-selected cells, but after a doubleklick into a cell the cell value is displayed with the default format (point as ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

Enhancement request for improvement on the visibility of border formatting

In Microsoft Excel (PAfE), it is possible (with a cell selected) to include the following formatting: menu Home/Font/More Borders/ --> "Bottom Double Border" However, this formatting is not fully visible when the spreadsheet is published an...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Private / direct endpoint support for watsonx.data Presto and Milvus services

Several other database and storage services support private / direct endpoints within IBM Cloud. There are architectures for watsonx.data that do not need to leave the IBM Cloud from a network perspective and should be able to rely on private / di...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Under review

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
10 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

In 4GL, add support for more modern Data and Object Types

In 4GL, add support for multiple Industry standard data and Object types: String HashMap (and/or Dictionary) and HashList Data Frame (as in Python) External Record - portable, custom written records that can be shared globally or between function ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, ability to formulate and send emails

Add ability in 4GL to create a formatted email and send to selected recipients.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL forms, add support for a scrollable text field

In 4GL Forms, ability to define a text field or text area, where the data associated is larger than the allotted area. When the user enters data in the field/area, the data will 'scroll' either left/right or up-down, to allow the user to continue ...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

In 4GL, Expand Character-Based forms beyond the current 24x76 size

Expand the current form-size to beyond the current 24x76 size, and allow the form to be scrollable, both left-right and up-down.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted