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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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Data-partitioned secondary index (dpsi) support for row change timestamp columns

To identify which rows of a table have changed in specified time interval we are using timestamp columns. The values of these columns are set via the "GENERATED BY DEFAULT FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP" clause. To optimize query p...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Edit Cognos Charts in PowerPoint

A chart is exported from Cognos to PowerPoint(PPT). It is then sent to the client for review. The client requests font changes (non-data) to the chart. However, to make these changes the developer has to go back to Cognos, make the updates, log th...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

ODBC, OCI and DRS connectors are failing if the source table column length are not matched with defined column length in the connector

In old OCI, DRS and ODBC, the stage won't check the column length of the database table and what we defined in the stage, and it won't give any warning about column mismatch and won't truncate the data if the given length is smaller than the datab...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

#cpfield Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited.

Automatic saving is executed every 1 or 2 seconds in the UI of Cognos Dashboards, and properties cannot be edited. We would like to fix this Problem.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Response Data Calculates Each Response's Base Individually

The proper measurement procedure for items that have response options shown based on selection in a prior item is to use selection count from the master item as the base size on a per response basis.
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

implement EXISTS or NOT EXISTS operator in reporting

I would like to have the possibility to use in reporting the sql EXIST operator available. I don't like to write manual sql because of manteniance and portability or use other shortcuts or alternative to implement the sql EXIST logic for example u...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make ifxcollect dump location configurable

The directory used by ifxcollect is hardcoded to $INFORMIXDIR/isa/data.This breaks as soon as IDS has been upgraded to a new version/special build and needs manual intervention which can be forgotten easily. What would probably work much better if...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration