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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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Allow Columns to be Reordered in Data Modules

Today, it is not possible in a Data Module to change the order of columns from the existing order of the underlying data source. This functionality should be added to Data Modules
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Event Studio to support emailing multiple report outputs for same recipient separately

Our requirement is to email a bursted report to business users and to have the subject line indicate the policy# and a few other pieces of information. Once the report is bursted, one ore more report outputs will be created for the same recipient....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement Oracle "Flashback Database and Restore Points"

Implement same functionality as Oracle Flashback Database and Restore Points. There regular procedure to restore data with Informix is to restore either the entire instance or some dbspaces. This procedure can be very long (5 hours+) when high dat...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Provide a default PLAN_TABLE and DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE

If we use the CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE special register more widely, we have to create either a PLAN_TABLE and a DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE or an ALIAS for each user. If we forget it, it doesn't work. So if there would be a default table for both, all ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Alter table that has foreign keys

Abilit to alter tables with foreig keys when referenced tables are opened.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Import JSON schema definition

We want to integrate files in JSON format, the JSON schema file is available. We use the Hierarchical stage. But when we want to import this definition into the libraries (datastage componant / schema library / add resource) the file is treated as...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Maker-Checker Capabilities on User Management

Safer Payments is being used by banks where there are extensive auditing and internal controls on what user profiles are being created and how are they being used. The absence of any authorization capabilities in Safer Payments while creating user...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration