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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

MIG panel option for HPU Unload to allow selection of 'REPLACE' in LOADOPTS parm RFE 124519

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124519 When driving HPU through a MIG Data unload/load the resulting load is always generated as RESUME YES.If the target tables already exist with data then we n...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Upload/ drop down feature for pictures (screenshots) in RTF textfields to be shown in reports.

Hello, We use the audit module, in order to document findings we would like to add pictures, tables or other more visible graphs for a reader. These findings shall be reported through "Cognos" and visualized in a standard "audit report". Therefore...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where sever...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Row Change Timesatmp with Precision 12 and Timezone

Row change timestamp is sensitive to changing from daylight savings time to standard time since it doesn't support TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE and other precisions than 6.Applications have two requirements that could be combined and solved by the row ...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Increase the limit of tables that can be read in a single pass. RFE 123712

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123712 Reading more 575 tables in a single pass results in the following error message:ALAA464E LOAD table limit exceeded, storageexhausted.Explanation: You have exceeded the...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

DSX Local: Using SPSS Modeler as the source node to data scientist's notebook

In DSX Local using SPSS Modeler as a data preparation tool where it would be possible to use a custom algorithm in R for the final model.. Currently working on data preparation in SPSS Modeler and than building model in R are two separate processe...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release