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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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A Sort-Merge Join should be considered when joining on a SUBSTR expression

When tuning the following query, I saw that changing the "INNER JOIN" to a "FULL JOIN" caused it to perform many times better (which changed the join from a NLJ to a SMJ): SELECT ARCHIVE_STRT.LOCAL_TS AS LOCAL_TS_STRT, TIMESTAMPDIFF(2, CAST(ARCHIV...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Framework Installs

There is no alternate way of running multiple version of Framework manager on the same server.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Big Query connector with Reject link

We would like to take the advantage of having a reject link option on Big query connector. While loading data in to BQ table we see few records are dropping , to track those dropped records , having a reject link functionality will be handy to nar...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Ignore log records for a dedicated subscription in IGNORETRANS

In very rare cases Db2 cannot provide log records for Q Capture, e.g. in case of a version mismatch, a compression dictionary error, etc. Removing the subscription and reloading the target is a practical approach. But in some situations (e.g., non...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

JDBC Connector for a Lotus Notes DB/HCL Notes for Datastage on CP4DaaS

JDBC Connector for a Lotus Notes DB/HCL Notes for Datastage on CP4DaaS
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

API For Explorer Reports

Currently there is no REST API for Explorer reports. We would like to have an API so we can monitor the performance using Telemetry.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.0 1 Functionality already exists

Enable browsing of "local" XML data

In ADMIN Tool it is possible to browse XML-data from distributed Db2 via Option: DD - Distributed DB2 systems This works, because DRDA protocol does a conversion for data that is not compatible to the local CCSID. When trying this on a local Syste...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Report Links : Select more than one Applications Links.

In a Active Report given the opportunity to select more than one Applications Links.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Cognos for Microsoft Office interface for Microsoft Office 2013 SDI

With the change of Microsoft Office interface from MDI to SDI in Office 2013 the Cognos for Microsoft Office panel will automatically appear in a new instance of Office when an existing instance of Office is open with the panel already open.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IGI Service Center - Request approvation in external panel

Hi, is it possible to have request details and accept/refuse it in the IGI Service Center approval panel, without the mandatory step of access in every single request in order to check the details? It would improve the user experience.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration