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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.

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Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Improve Performance of Aggregator stage with Decimal output

Aggegator is a typical standard stage to implement Sum or Maximum calculation.But Sum or Maximum value can be implemented by Transformer stage.However, the performance of Aggregator stage implementing Sum or Maximum value with Decimal output optio...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow SYSTOOLS and SYSFUN schemas to be permitted separate from SYSCTRL

Currently, SYSCTRL is required for creation of procedures/functions with schemas SYSFUN or SYSTOOLS, i.e. when running DSNTIJRT. We would like schemas such as "SYSTOOLS" and "SYSFUN" to be able to be permitted/granted separately from SYSCTRL, as S...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide the function to limit /allow /control the SLOT number capacity for each specific user groups

Provide the function to limit /allow /control the SLOT number capacity for each specific user groups
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prompt user for Dynamic Report name rather than using a random number

When adding a dynamic report, what appears to be added as a reference is a random number. In a book with multiple reports and multiple reports on the same sheet, these numbers give no clue as to which report is being referenced. In Perspectives, i...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Initiated LOAD operation remove the "initial load pending status" and restart the replication after the batch window

Require the option that user's initiated LOAD operation remove the "initial load pending status" and restart the replication after the batch window
about 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration