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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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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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Defragment for a dbspace

Add at the 'DEFRAGMENT' SQL Api , the option to defragment an entire dbspace. We have set in our environment tables and partitions with historical data, so, they are tables or partitions who have any changes (include/excluded data). Most of th...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sync up user's name properly between CPD and OpenPages

Per IBM the CP4D user job replaces openpages first name with full name. Full name is imported to openpages from “Name” tab of CP4D – which are LDAP names imported from LDAP server. Below are the current LDAP attribute mapping, can you let us know ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 3 Delivered

Start Dynamic Cubes via an Event or Job maintenance after Cognos services have started

Customer has asked: ""By default dynamic cubes are started when the Query Service is started. This could cause a problem when there are several dynamic cubes started at the same time. Virtual cubes could be started under this default configuration...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optimize the interval fragment

when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QM CAE web interface should remember the target CQM subsystem

When using the QM CAE web interface. When starting the QM CAE browser, the Activity Browser drop down list for "targets" always default initially to the alphabetical first target name. This is my dev DB2. I am usually using QM to look at prod. So ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as per schedule to avoid one last trigger and job run timestamp modification.

The MDE job was scheduled to run every week on Sunday till 06/04 but the job definition modification time & modified by the user got changed automatically on 06/09. It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

PAW User and Group Export

Administration user export should contain those elements cloumns what we need for import as well. The first name and last name aren't in the export, but it's in the paw system. When we would like to change the user or delete, we need to fill it ma...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Status and Start of Jobs from overview page

When displaying Jobs in WSL, first the overview page is displayed. For any Job, to get the last status, or to start the Job, one has to click on the Job details. It would be much easier, if this information / functionality would be on the Job over...
over 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Delivered