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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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Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Customers Branding on Openpages Login and Home page.

Capability should be provided to Add Logo on Left hand Panel of Login Screen Where Username and Password are entered. As Well as Black bar on top of Home Page should have capability to Add Customer's logo in it.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Add columnar indexes to Informix.

Other databases e.g. DB2 have columnar index support builtin, we would like that in Informix as well. use case the same as for DB2.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Encrypt CAMPassword for parameterized URL

Using a parameterized URL to open dashboards, reporte, ... including login credentials, the CAMPassword value can only be passed as plaintext value. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/parameterized-url-perform-login-and-open-dashboard-or-report For...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Retain Existing Workbook Permissions on Deployment

Presently, existing workbooks must be replaced when using the deployment process to transfer from one environment to another. This method only allows for the inheritance of the parent folder's permissions or permission retention of the user perfor...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration