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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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Working system-calls from sysadmin tasks with Informix for Windows

Automatic Backup Tasks started from within the sysadmin-scheduler don't work on windows systems. The same problem with every other system-call. This is a Windows-specific problem. On Linux systems this works as intended.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Delete an account on the planning analytics on cloud and from the instance

To delete an account, we need to delete the account on the user administration of planning analytics on cloud using the "remove access" and after manually delete the corresponding user from the instance. The deletion is not automatic.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Measure Icon on Fact Query subjects in Report Studio and Query Studio as in Framework Manager

If Report Studio and Query Studio display measure icon at the query subject level would be easy to differentiate between facts and dimensions. Framework Manager does display measure icon (scale icon) for the query subjects apart from actual measur...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Please provide support for current versions of Ubuntu. Version 14.04 is not supported by Canonical anymore. Support for version 16.04 will expire soon, too. New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

The ability to grant rights for users on subscriptions not based on read/write rights of the tables in Db2

At the moment the method for securing subscriptions between users is based on the read/write authorisations of the users on the tables that are defined in the subscriptions. So if a user opens the management console the user can only see the subsc...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Audit logs for Watson Assistant.

My dev team can't keep track of who and which changes where made on the chatbot.It would be nice having a change history with version date, change sets and the user who made those changes.
over 5 years ago in Openscale 2 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration