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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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Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

support the configuration of route-maps and filters on BGP setup

We use BGP Setups for connection from IPS serveurs to our switches (client side). We need inter-IPS connections to have better network performances for IPS to IPS data copy. These connections use also BGP protocol. When we add these inter IPS conn...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Suppress Zeros button should be Highlighted in Planning analytics work-space 2.0.45

Every time users should not be check in Suppress Zeros button
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Users with Analyst role not able to see process error log in IBM Planning Analytics Work-space 2.0.45

When user runs the process and if there is an error int he process the user with analyst role is not able to see the error logs and error logs are only been seen to the user with admin roles. As analyst is the only user who inputs the data and...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations

There is no way to translate Report Studio query elements like Data Items or Query Calculations (no report language variable, no additional options). Automatic summary elements only have one name too ("summary (measure)"). Regardless of the langua...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for the ‘-‘ key to be used as a modifier for hot keys.

There are many limitations to the number of hotkeys that can be used in FTM due to Windows key functions and other conflicts between Shift and ALT with the 10 key pad. Using a modifier outside of the common CTRL, ALT, Shift would allow for a large...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for the ‘-‘ key to be used as a modifier for hot keys.

There are many limitations to the number of hotkeys that can be used in FTM due to Windows key functions and other conflicts between Shift and ALT with the 10 key pad. Using a modifier outside of the common CTRL, ALT, Shift would allow for a large...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration