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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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Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

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

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

db2adutl parallelism

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM are performed using parallelism, sometimes up to parallelism 10. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have no access to the TSM server. In the source environment the Db2 ba...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Report Reference and Layout Component Reference

Both the Layout Component Reference and the Report Reference functionality in reports have limitations that prevent report authors from leveraging previously developed content. I would like to see these enhanced so that authors do not need to rede...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase data audited in regards to emailing to be able to answer IBM License Audit truthfully

Audit information needs to be able to provide the number of report recipients. This is part of IBM Licensing Audits. Currently customers can only data-mine Mailserver Logs, if that information is included.Or buy inconclusive Admin Software like Mo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration