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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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Prepend machine's name to Assert files written to DUMPDIR

Scenario: The customer site uses a single network mount for DUMPDIR across hundreds of servers. Impact: difficulty in identifying AF files generated by specific servers. Current workaround: search online.log for all "stack trace for pid" strings...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Recovery option in PAW to recover a deleted folder

Recently I accidently deleted folder (and of course everythinf in it) from PAW. I opened a case in IBM Cloud Support to ask them to recover it but even they said that it's impossible to recover the missing folder. So it's gone. So I'm asking some ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QW148TTK unreliable when thread is in-doubt

IFCID 0148 Monitor Detail Record 2 field QW148TTK is incorrect when the thread being reported is in-doubt and as evidenced by cross-checking with DB2 -DISPLAY THREAD output. Requesting either a correct QW148TTK for in-doubt threads or a means to d...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoiding 0C7 on UNLOAD from FIC when structure has changed

Hi all, To explain what the idea I'm going to explain the "issue" In a project, we add to drop a column from a table. To do that on multiple environment we use automation tool. The tool drop/create the object without unloading data. So to correct ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Remove the field Schema in data virtualization

Hi, According to an answer that we receive, the schemas name is only a suggestion and can be anything you would like when creating the Schema. By default, the Schemas are not owned by anyone, as a result, the other users can see all schema names b...
over 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Option to disable PAX config options for users

We would like to see an feature or option to disabled the user specific options in PAX. In particular we would like to prevent users from being able to modify the data row limit setting and any other settings that would allow users to run large MD...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Delay Statistics: add read cache hit and split lock/latch delays

Make it easier to track lock vs latch delays at statement level. Identify applications that could benefit from zhyperlink enablement.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add commit/rollback counter ( to operational summaries and Interval Selection )

This has been missed for a long time when comparing to our previous stmt monitoring solution. Easy access to tracking of commit/rollback activity.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release