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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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Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Include jdbc oracle string in Search properties file to allow Failover options

Currently, in the Search server properties files, there is option to mention only DB Host name and we can enter only 1 Host name. It would be helpful to add a failover string like in aurora.properties file where we can mention the database.url ins...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 3 Not under consideration

Adjustable scaling of axis in all PAW charts

All charts in PAW should allow for (automatic or manual) adjustment of the axis. Line charts currently auto-scale to fit/suit the data held in the chart, however e.g. bar charts do not. This is something that has been noticed by a client and they ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Informix HQ should have a dark theme like grafana

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Planned for future release

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Put quick references to help menu

The quick references area takes up space, but it is present on the home screen and is not perinating. Even if the proxi company allows access to youtube, once we have done the tour we come back more. And the presence of this zonne annoys - my cus...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration