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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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Shutdown for InformixHQ

InformixHQ-Server lacks a possibility for shutdown. The admin has to issue a kill command from the command line with the proper (root) access. This is not at all satisfying. InformixHQ-agents can be stopped by pressing a button - as long as th...
over 5 years ago in Informix 2 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to secured connections (SSL, AT-TLS)

On our approach to convert all tcp/ip based connections to Db2 for z/OS to secured/protected ones (SSL,AT-TLS), we are missing a way to measure our progress here. The only way to get information about the portion of secured connections is (as far ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Help text for attributes

The current setup with a Help URL is not sufficient for our customers. It is to technical and not user friendly. Also it doesn't work with Firefox, Chrome or Safari. We prefer a mouse-over text or a i / ? button that you can click with a pop-up.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Set APPLICATION_NAME and CLIENT_APPLNAME property on QMF tool level to easily identify QMF tool database connection

I have downloaded fresh new version of QMF for Workstation v13.1 on Windows 10. This issue is also present in previous versions, so not a regression on latest version. 1. Start QMF tool. 2. Connect to any Db2 database. I have connected to Db2 v11....
almost 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add custom variables in Planning Analytics Workspace TI process editor

Currently, the TI process editor in PAW doesn't allow you to add custom variables, which is available in Architect. Although these can be defined in the script, having metadata and data variables defined with the data source variables enhances rea...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Add capability to remap a table in a data module to a new source

In framework manager, we have had the capability to remap a model query subject to a new source for years... it seems this isn't available/possible in data modules, yet would be a significant improvement to give the modeler this capability, like t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Make db2ilist more informative

Since db2ilist lost its ability to display the bitness of instances it was just capable to name all users, who have linked the sqllib directories. db2ilist would be much more useful, if it could show the instance type (server, client, ...) and e.g...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered

Collect statistics for NPI when reorging only a partition

In general we want to collect statistics only as inline stats using USE PROFILE during reorg. Our strategy is to reorg objects on a partition level. Unfortunately in this case statistics for NPIs are sometime not collected and we receive message D...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Task Focused UI: Saving filters

Please can we save filters again just like in Standard UI. This makes navigating a lot of information a lot easier. I would say this is important as a lot of our users have extremely high workload and simply do not have the time resource.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Support of formula IFERROR in PAW and TM1Web

In PAX we are using formula IFERROR to check, whether a formula returns an error.In PAx this formula works fine, but neither in PAW nor in TM1Web this formula is supported.It would be great to support this function, as we're publishing our PAX rep...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered