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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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Scheduling Feature Enhancements

Here are the key improvements we would like to the scheduling feature and capabilities: 1. We need the ability to limit all schedules to a minimum of 15 minute intervals. This means no report or agent can be scheduled for 1, 5, or 10 minute interv...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Make range fragmentation work on high-write systems

Our application is INCREDIBLY write-heavy with highly transient data. Frankly, it doesn't even belong in Informix at all; it ought to be in something like MongoDB or even an in-memory DB. [I'm not kidding: 75-90K inserts per minute, involving BYTE...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Making Historical Intervals accurate

At TOM there is some very useful views for Historical. And there is a way to create/alter sampling intervals and customer wants to choose 1 minute intervals as the most detailed view. This makes sense in the development where the price to pay is w...
over 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Lock Escalation Action zParm for Pre-Escalation

A new zParm that would enable feature in DB2 to: 1) detect request for LOCK ESCALATION2) lookup thread characteristics/criteria in control 'table'3) take action (coded in 'table') based on entry in control 'table', OR take a default action (i.e. d...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration