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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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Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Secure the Wire Listener: Stop requiring clear text passwords

Currently, the only way to secure the wire listener is to put clear text passwords in the jsonListener.properties file. This is true both for the JDBC connection to the database and for the SSL keystore. There needs to be a way to keep those clear...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide SYSTEM / UNIQUE collation sequence support for column organized tables when codepage is 819

The lack of support for anything other than IDENTITY collation sequence for codepage 819 makes migration to BLU very difficult for customers who use it.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix native driver for Go programming language

We need an Informix native driver for the Go programming language.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Data Protection Rule should not be editable by other except the user who created it.

When a Steward with the Manage Data Protection rule permission creates a Data protection rule and applies the rule on the column name, User who is restricted cannot see the column, however when the same user who is restricted can go to the rule an...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Updating Cognos Integration Server Connection from backend using SQL DB

This is regarding updating the Server details in the Connection from Cognos Integration Server. As a part of updating the BW server details, we need to do the following: 1)Export the selections 2) Delete the selections 3)update the connections 4) ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase max export rows for RTM

The default maximum number of rows RTM can export to Excel is 50k. It's possible to increase this (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/modify-number-export-rows-you-can-set-rtm-console), but would be nice to have a larger option built into RTM.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

Sort of parameterset values when running a job

When running a job and a parameterset is used, you shoud select a value for the parameterset. (parameterset file). This drop-down box seems to be unsorted. After investigation it seems to be that the list is sorted in the order the files are store...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration