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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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When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Postgres Support for Cognos Analytics Content Store

Postgres is supported by Cognos Analytics as a data source but is not supported as a content store database. From a deployment and cost perspective it would make sense to support Postgres for both so that it simplifies the process. Currently, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Change DCLGEN to generate S9(4) COMP-5 instead of S9(4) COMP for SMALLINT columns

DCLGEN generates SMALLINT fields as S9(4) COMP with acceptable values +32767 through -32768. A Cobol 'MOVE' makes truncation possible and renders any value over 9999 risky. IBM Case Number: TS003249935
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Multi-View Synchronized Scrolling

In PAW book I would like to put two views from two different cubes that share the "Account" dimension for example. The one view has accounts to track expenses and the other view has drivers that determine the allocation methodology.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IF Statement w/out ELSE

Would be great to have the ability to end an IF statement after condition is met. e.g. IF (_add_months([$System Fields:Last Modified Date$],6) >= [$TODAY$] THEN “Dormant”, ELSE <Do Nothing> ENDIF If we set it to what it was already (“In P...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

access to watson assistant analysis is available only for manager access

While i want to provide access to the business users for watson assistance as a reader/viewer. It doesnt allow them to view the analytics portion. Only a manager access can provide them this access. But giving them manager access, can risk whole p...
about 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration