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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 more then 8bytes for DATABASE NAME.(RIMS)

Database names are currently limited to 8 characters (bytes) in size. This is painful when dealing with hundreds/thousands of databases.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Victimization of unused compression dictionaries from DBHEAP(RIMS)

Compression and Expansion dictionaries for each object (table, index) remain in memory until database deactivation time. This is problematic because enough DBHEAP must be allocated to host a compression/expansion dictionary for EACH object that is...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Add permission for Administrator Client access

Need the ability to control the access to the administartor client for all users.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Not under consideration

Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request Platform Analytics bldloader improvements

Request improvements to the Platform Analytics bldloader data loader so that it captures more of the information that is available on the command line. The License Scheduler documentation includes details on how to set up LS to write to a bld.stre...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

TS000105078 Issue: MDM Coll Ed 11.6 search is incorrectly case sensitive for relationship attributes

MDM Coll Ed 11.6 search is incorrectly case sensitive for relationship attributes
about 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Selection in SUBNM not getting updated if sheet is set to Manual Calculation mode

The selection in SUBNM formula in PAX does not get updated when selection is changed when sheet is set to Manual calculation mode. The cell with Subnm formula displays *RECALC text until refresh button is clicked on to recalculate the worksheet or...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Journal Load - Validation differ from CSV to Controller Client

PMR : TS000134916 Hi In Controller 10.2.1 there appears to be differences on how journels validations are being conducted. Can the same validation be implimented in Controller when Group Journels are done by "DATA ENTRY ---> GROUP JOURNELS and ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration