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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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Separate company lock records from company structures for structures export / import

currently, company lock records are imported/exported together with company structures. This causes the import process for company structures to extend by many hours. it makes it hard to transfer company structures to other databases for testing. ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Informix HTML datatype support across distributed queries

The type of HTML is not widely supported by other APIs other than WebDatablade. Therefore, when a query is made within a distributed query system, where user is inside database db1, and query with html column is made for database db2, below error ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Admin Tool - issues with excludes

Please review case TS004429158. Item #3 = When saving the exclude it isn't a straight forward and smooth experience. Panel ADBPCEX seems to be doing an extra save and hop (Panel ADBPCRS and ADBPCEX) Please view documents attached to the case.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase dasd volume limit beyond 1 disk

With our current storage configuration, CDC is giving a IEC032I E37-08 on our sysut1. It's our understanding that CDC does not currently allow multivolume datasets. We're requesting that 'feature' be added.
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable Dropdown in PaFe (Excel) when cell lock is applied

Users like PaFe addin and comfortable working in excel. So the template developed in excel they want to protect using cell security provided by excel. This Pafe template will be used both online and offline commit purpose. It is observed that when...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IA Data Quality rules Table Join keys operators

Operators - Within IA Data Quality rule development, Currently we can only join tables with = operator on Keys under Joins Tab. There is no way we can join tables using >= or <= operators . For example we would like to join tables where Tabl...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IDAA Sailfish v7 - Table prioritization during load

On IDAA v5, Banco do Brasil groups and prioritizes the tables that will be loaded into IDAA.On IDAA v7 - a set of tables are loaded using Smart Load feature. Banco do Brasil needs table prioritization during the smart load process.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration