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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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Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Require NODEFDAC as a server side general setup

This is a follow up on RFE 34407.The original request was classified as "Delivered" but I'd say that veridict totally misses the point. The answer provided states that we can use informix.rc file to set the variable. That's true for UNIX. But in t...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

connect directly to IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? through cognos

we are looking to DVM to Cognos - Connectivity it will redundant using multiple tools to connect/access data from IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? and it will give option to directly connecting to Mainframe databases.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide incremental progress messages through a DB2 group restart

During a recent DR activity our Db2 had issues during group recovery and it was challenging to determine at what point Db2 had gone as far as it could before requiring the other member to be restarted to resolve any locks RC00C200EB . The MSTR log...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dump configs to standardized format for cluster comparisons

We have multiple stand-alone clusters, and frequently have issues with something working differently in one as opposed to another. The solution from our side is to use something like ansible/chef/cfEngine to build the clusters, but for our existin...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration