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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.

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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Support plugins in informixHQ

Plugins have been an important feature of OAT, that allowed to implement your own individual neccecary administration tasks. Without this feature one would have to write another toolset. This is not desireable. It should be possible to do (nearly)...
over 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Add full user name to FTM MER users.

We use our companies internalcryptic IDs (ie nj123456) to add a user to FTM MER. FTM MER should provide a field to also add the uers full name (ie David Jones). Our audit department is requesting this.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

additional Db2 accounting info when SELECT FROM FINAL TABLE is used

When I use SQL UPDATE then the accounting information is very clear that UPDATE was used. If I wrap that UPDATE with SELECT FROM FINAL TABLE on the outside then the accounting information does not clearly show UPDATE was used. This is tricky and a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Donut Charts an option for central text/value

Donut version of a PIE chart by definition have an available area within the circle , and this is OFTEN utilised by displaying a value (Total or avg or something). This is done manually by overlaying a dashboard element. Providing this as an intri...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

add macro or function to query calc

Macro's and Functions do not appear in the expression editor.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should check the Timeseries data associated with a table

From the docs 'Use the oncheck utility to check specified disk structures for inconsistencies, repair inconsistent index structures, and display information about disk structures.' However, if a table has TimeSeries data associated with it the TS ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ease use of ROS in high volume transaction system utilizing DGTT on Primary db

Trying to utilize ROS to offload reports and heavy queries from Primary Database. Hence we should be able to scale the workload on the Primary, once these are moved away form here. But does not work out for us. Queries are getting forced off often...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Is a defect

UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD

PH30480 UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration