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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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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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db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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

Names of mandates,submandates, and reqs coming from TRRI feed should be more meaningful

Currently a sample mandate name would look like this: N2337B6702C3811E193E9A4A10117562A By giving it a proper name finding the right mandate would become much easier, Also the context tree maps would become much more useful. This applies to submat...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future 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

Allow paste over calculated cells

Currently if you try to paste a row of data down to another row but one of the columns is calculated you get an error message. I would like to suggest providing the ability to paste the data but ignore the calculated cells. As an example if I am p...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Case Transition with MEMO Save

Currently users have to enter memos and then save them and then transition the case to close. It would be helpful to have the memos automatically save when cases are transitioned from one state to another to avoid any lost messages.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR scraping from Oracle physical standby in fully decouple mode, no connection to primary DB

IIDR configured against standby DB in Active Data Guard configuration of oracle- no DB connection to Primary DB. IIDR should be able to scrape the logs at Oracle physical standby and all DB connections should be fired against the standby without h...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration