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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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Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW/CA Canvas grid size improvements

Upon analysis, the current behavior of dashboard is the following. In relative mode, the horizontal fit is constantly activated and we can’t disable it. That’s why the pixel scaling of the grid is always wrong. Once the width or height becomes rel...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the hidden attribute for index

我们希望给索引添加一个属性visible on/off比如:ALTER INDEX VISIBLE ON (默认属性)ALTER INDEX VISIBLE OFF (索引不可见)当索引不可见以后优化器无法使用不可见的索引,如果需要,直接alter index ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Z/OS Sync Logical and Physical Parts after full Reorg

ADD PART was used to insert a new physical partition in the middle of a tablespace. Now the Logical and Physical partitions are mismatch. If a Full Reorg on the full tablespace is performed, the utility can include an option to resync the logical ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration