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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Informix 4gl based Datablades

I would like the ability to create database/SPL's using Informix 4GL syntax and features. I know forms and such wouldn't work but I could then leverage legacy into efficient data retrieval processes for for Java and Typescript to access
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DB2 must not abend RC00F3040A when allied address spaces goes on end-of-memory in must complete operations or holding latch

In case of an allied address space going on end-of-memory with its agents are in must complete operation or still holding any latch, DB2 subsystem must be able to handle this situation keeping the data integrity not abending 04F RC00F3040A.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Non-root Installation

Currently installation as non-root user is not possible. One of the first checks during installation is whether the logged in user is root.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Restrict databases in select database to log on to

We intend to use Cognos Controller in a cloud environment where internal but also external users (customers) have access to. Currently, when a user launch Cognos Controller client, they will see all cognos controller databases in the "select datab...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Report Outputs on a single Scheduled Mail

We have several different properties and each one have is own set of reports with their figures. As as corporate point of view, we wanted to have each report scheduled for daily email delivery. It is unpleasant to have 10 mails with 1 attachment a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remembering the last Properties tab selected when selecting a different widget in PAW

Each time a new widget is selected in PAW, it defaults back to Visualisation tab although you would prefer to stay in the last tab you're working on as more often than not, when some option is selected, the user tends to change that in multiple ta...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to see the title elements in the Synchronized tab within PAW

While selecting the dimensions in Synchorized tab, it would be nice to also show the current title selections to know what elements it will update to when enabling that option for a dimension thereby giving more visibility to users and eliminating...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically

Clean up WEBGUI server cache and working directories automatically
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration