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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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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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Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Transparent HEX color for PAW color palette

On the 'line and column' chart in PAW, due to chart limitation, we cannot hide the first line as that corresponds to the first column values too. So the users have requested if we can at least make that line transparent on the chart. Is there any ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add AWS RDS for Db2 as a target database for Data Gate on Cloud

Data Gate on cloud available at AWS only syncronize data for Db2 z/OS to a Db2 Warehouse SaaS. The idea is to add AWS RDS Db2 as an target database.
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration