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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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Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Oracle 18c support in DataStage v11.5

There seems to no support for connecting to Oracle 18c Database from DataStage 11.5 or 11.7
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Rapid Job Update Tool to support Snowflake connector.

Walmart is upgrading to Snowflake , so they are trying to upgrade from Teradata to Snowflake. So Basically, what the ask now is we know there is a RJUT (Rapid Job Update tool) is available. Walmart is looking for some feature built by IBM using RJ...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Can we make switching between Standard and TFUI easier and more obvious?

There is a menu option to switch to standard UI (the people icon) but not one that will then switch back to TFUI. RBS have created a menu item in Standard UI to do this, but users would prefer a common method with an easily identifiable way to switch
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Ability to Collapse or Expand ALL sections in task views

As task views can now be quite long, users are asking for a quick way to collapse and expand all sections so they can more quickly view the data
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
almost 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Add option to dbschema command to see views

Currently, you have to do a system table query to see existing views. Please add an option (possibly -v) to dbschema to display views.
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration