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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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Correct filename when exporting report to PDF

When opening a report in PDF and try to download it, the filename is always "ext.pdf", no matter, which report is being opened. This issue occurs only in Internet Explorer, when doing the same steps in Chrome for example - the filename is "report_...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

zOS DLA not discovering IDAA

Would like to have the zOS DLA discover our IDAA boxes.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow an EDITPROC routine to be added to a table using ALTER

Update ALTER to allow an EDITPROC to be added to a table. Remember if an EDITPROC was added to a table or not in the catalog. If an EDITPROC was *not* alter added to a table (either none was specified, or the EDITPROC was specified at CREATE TABLE...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DecimalToString() function results differ when balanced optimization for Oracle is applied

We want to transform Decimal(38,10) into VarChar. DecimalToString() function transforms our decimals into string and they also get padded left and right with zeroes, which is default behavior of that function. However, when that job is optimized u...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Transposing color background black and letters white in DS designer.

There is no built-in feature to allow for transposed colors (white letters on a background) in any of the thick clients.This not considered a defect, and there is no patch for this.Allowing custom color support would be considered a new feature.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Sorting by non-indexed attributes on multiedit page

Hi,MDM CE 11.5 have property nonindexed_search_like_indexedWhich add availability search by non indexed attributes. And same property can be used for sorting on multiedit page for non-indexed attributesPlease add this feature.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

informix 4gl needs support for boolean

Informix 4gl should support the conversion of the booleandatatype into something rational. Currently it cannot select it correctly. It can however set it correctly.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0