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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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IBM db2 UDB . total number of standby supported in HADR needs to increase it from 3 to more value like datagaurad in oracle

Currently HADR setup support maximum 4 standby including one principle . Why can't it goes like data gaurd in Oracle which support 30 standby
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Set Editor Drill to Leaves on Selected Side Or Right click

In predecessor to Planning Analytics for Excel (CAFE), you could "Insert Member with Inputs" from the selected side of the set editor. In PAX, you can do this from the available side but requires you to sift through members first. Cube Viewer does...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to pause a cluster to suspend runtime charges when the cluster is not in use

Sometimes, I only need to use a cluster for a one-off task that may run for a few days or more. I would like to be able to pause these clusters when I am not using them to suspend charges. The clusters usually have some configuration that I do man...
about 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Moving only a single partition with AMT procedure for online reorg

Since the performance of inplace reorg per partition is too slow, customer want to use AMT procedure for online reorganizaiton. However AMT can specify table level only, not partition level.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

using none unique index to accelerate update and delete on column-organized

there is a limitation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/r0061828.html) Update and delete operations that use an index scan on a column-organized table are not supported by the FETCH opera...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration