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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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Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HAA - PBR containing XML generated REORG that abended because XML running at the same time as an index in the base table containing the XML column in two separate jobs

Base table has index: Name Schema T DB Name TS Name Cols Rows Chks * * * * * * * * ------------------ -------- - -------- -------- ------ ----------- ---- MASTER_TRANS_MTR ZAP2 T DZAP2QR1 SQR1MTR 17 10 0 XQR14MTR Column Name Seq No O Col Type Leng...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HAA - RUNSTATS grouping all NPSI partitions into one job instead of spreading the objects across multiple jobs

Running RUNSTATS on TS with NPSIs. All partitions were put into the same job instead of being spread across the 20 jobs. This is true for Reorg, but not RUNSTATS.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HAA did not pick up the need for NPSIs to be reorged when TS was being reorged

SEMHNSA TS partition 278 having 2 NPSIs was triggered for REORG. HAA is run 6 times on Saturday and 4 times on Sunday since this TS is so large, 7 billion rows in some environments. REXX code rebuilds the RGNSA001 so that only 100M rows are reorge...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need for Cognos licence when emailing content to users with no Cognos access

When we schedule a report like other BI products we would like the ability to deliver content straight into users/customers inboxes without the requirement for them to hold as a minimum an Information Distribution licence. We accept that those com...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Options for controlling and securing email attachments

We need to have more options to control email attachment functionality. 1. Give administrators the ability to set access to email attachment option by group/role. 2. Give the option to prevent emailed report attachments when the report contains a ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD IMS AS POSSIBLE DATASOURCE IN COGNOS ANALYTICS

The IMS data source has been removed from Cognos Analytics since version 11.0.6This database is however an IBM product while the IDMS database (Computer Associates and now Broadcom) is still available in 11.1.5 for example. We have the need in our...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration