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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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cdr migrate should allow code-set migration

If a customer needs to change the locale of a database, wants to standardize to a common locale etc then the only option is to unload the data and reload. On small databases this might be possible but for 99% of the real systems this is impractica...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Ensure data consistency in even the biggest LOBs without compromising availability

The only way to ensure data consistency in Db2 LOBs, is by regularly checking – and by always to ensure that we have at least one full and consistent image copy of all LOBs. Not to compromise availability, all CHECK LOB utilities must use SHRLEVEL...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 11 Delivered

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...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Review the error label of "Your view session has expired. Refresh your view and relaunch your action"

Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.43 : Client face a behaviour in the way how they enter data. When he enter date, he encounters an error :"Your view session has expired. Refresh your view and relaunch your action" In short the behaviour is expecte...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cache parameterized queries if default values set

Refresh Report Output: When scheduling a report via Job, if we select ‘refresh the report cache', it only refreshes prompt page of the report. How could we refresh report output if data latency is acceptable?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward should proactively determine if END OF LOGS will not be able to be reached

In a partitioned database environment, if there is some log file from a database partition that is missing, the database can only be recovered to a point in time where the log files from all database partitions are available. If only the log files...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow start RESTORE on non-catalog db-partitions earlier

In a Multi-Partitioned databases, we currently need to restore each database partition individually, but, not all of them can be made in parallel. Catalog Partition must be restored first. and it must complete before we can start restoring the rem...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Single Cell and Exploration Visualisations should have "read-only" or "write" property to prevent data entry

When designing books after adding a "single cell" to a tab (prior to current release that now allows access to fields) if you need to remove because layout incorrect of not required if you use the "delete" key it will clear the contents from the c...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release