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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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Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
5 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

A way for administrator to clear dataset content

As an administrator I need to be able to: -Clear dataset content e.g. a dataset created by a user has not been refreshed for a long time. As an administrator I need to be able to clear the content in the dataset. I do not want to delete the datase...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

InformixHQ - heatmap - feature

Hello, Recently, during heavy load on an Informix Database, we noticed that there were some sessions that are using high IO Activity. We were using AGS Sentinel and was able to see these sessions in RED colour in a heatmap (see attached). It will ...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

Ability to Set Default Option for Select and Search Prompt

Would like a property for Select and Search prompts that allows setting / modifying the default option.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration