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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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Timeseries support compression

To compete with KDB.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add Block Indexes to informix

Add Block Indexes to informix similar to DB2 MDC Tables and Postgres BRIN Indexes.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Searching for data assets using synonyms

Suppose you assign only one representative business term to a data asset, and you have set up multiple synonyms for that business term. In this case, it would be useful to be able to search data assets for synonymous terms as well. If this cou...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Excel Export node with append option

Currently, we need to generate an Excel file with historical data processed periodically with a Modeler stream as a batch execution. The Excel file should append the data each time, not overwriting. The node can write an existing file, but always ...
9 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Global Timestamp

Currently in OpenPages there is only one timestamp for sign-off. I work at a global Japanese Bank and the timestamp is configured for the Tokyo Time zone. This means that if someone in New York Signs-off on a workpaper after lunch, it will show a ...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add option to Cognos Command Center to select plugin/plugin version when importing jobs

For example: source system: CCC 10.2.4 with TM1 9.5.2 Plugin target system: CCC 10.2.4 with TM1 10.2.2 Plugin During an upgrade cycle, if we need to move jobs from the source system to the target system, customers are expected to downgrade the plu...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

v4 items with tiff conditions not being corrected

Case number TS013265825 File name: TiffIcTests.x937Item amount: 7512Tiff tag: 262-Photometric InterpretationTiff condition: 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0. File name: TiffIcTests.x937Item amount: 3860Tiff ta...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

XML input and output decommission

One challenge my client is facing with IBM Cloud Pak for Data is native features have been decommissioned, such as XML input and output. Too many changes have been made, and my client has around one hundred thousand mappings, so their team has bee...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration