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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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Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Explain STMTCACHE By DSG instead of 1 member

EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL will only enter data into the DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE table for the member of the datasharing group on the LPAR which it's running. To get all of the dynamic SQL stats, the EXPLAIN has to run multiple times. Have the ability to e...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify a more representative selectivity for common predicates

Our queries have predicates that many queries share in common where the default selectivity is significantly outside the range of what ever actually occurs. This results in poor and/or unstable query performance. For common predicates with high un...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Commit Interval for Implicit Transactions

Allow user to set a commit interval in rows or time for SQL statements not contained in an explicit begin work/commit work block.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 should be handled in background instead of setting SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR

More and more customers have to include data from all over the world. The solution for this is UTF8, but for now this feature does not work in the background and add space if needed. The feature is implemented using SQL_LOGICAL_CHAR as configurati...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to disable implicit database creation

A new Zparm which disables the possibility to create the implicit created databases which was implemented in DB2 9.Database name e.g. DSN00001
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable the copy - paste functions from local PC to VNC graphical sessions opened within the Application Center (PAC) portal

Copy and paste functions from local PC to VNC sessions are crucial to work in a smooth way. These functionalities are not available in the PAC portal product. Copy /paste "echo hello" from notepad opened locally on the PC to VNC terminal in PAC wi...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Add connection type and server in catalog filter

When we filter assets in the catalog, besides the source, add the option of filtering by connection type (e.g. Db2, Teradata, etc.) and by server.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration