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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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Simplify Alter

In Db2 z/OS version 10 Pending Alters/Deferred Alters were introduced. Deferred Alters are not compatible with most Immediate Alters. Deferred Alters need materializing REORG before immediate Alter, or the Immediate Alter has to be run before...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Security in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Problem: Currently IBM PAW has a vide security access. Consumers and Analysts have access to both tiles - Application and Plans and Reports and Analysis, therefore they are able to see the list of all plans (Application and Plans tile), books (rep...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Create a function to allow a TI to be executed with user's security rights instead of the default Admin rights.

Create a function to force a TI to take security into account called in the prolog section The function could be similar to the one that allows TIs to overwrite locks (CubeLockOverwrite), which is called out once in the prolog section and modifies...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Enable Render Variables to hide/show columns for CSV and Excel-Data output format

Currently render variables and formats are completely ignored when executing a report in the output formats CSV and Excel-Data. Especially in cases where using render variables to display and hide complete list columns this would be very helpful. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration