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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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Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use complex logic on parental criteria

Ability to tailor grids and dashboard views based on parental logic. This would make the data presented to users tailored and targeted.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Data Modules - For data server connections and uploaded files, turn off/on cleansing of table and column labels

This is how it works today: For data server connections and uploaded files, the table and column labels are cleaned up in English and some other languages in the following way: For single files, the file extension, such as .xls or .csv, is remove...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available.

In MER, Entry and Repair message, after queue selection, The Message List inside Each Queue:Session No and Sequence Number to identify message are not available. It is very critical requirement for customer.
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Not under consideration

File Management in PAW

In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer something like a file explorer in PAW to upload different types of files so that every user can download them...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Request for an Informix CSDK port for MAC OS M1 processor

Is Informix CSDK 4.1x or 4.5x ported for MAC OS M1 processor? Seems like the last one available is x86_64 4.10 and I saw someone asking for a port in Dec 2021 with no response. Maybe there are some specific steps to run as a workaround using the e...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

Limit batch connections via DB2 profile tables

We had a few instances where an errant user submitted multiple batch jobs against a DB2 subsystem and caused DB2 to reach IDBACK limit. This affected other users trying to submit batch jobs for an extended period of time. Making use of DB2 profile...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration