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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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QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Native SQL Stored Procedure Maintenance Is Invalidating Dependent Packages

For DB2 V10 and V11. When any of following 3 things are done against a NSP (Native SQL Stored Procedure)1. Alter to Activate a version2. Bind Deploy Action(Replace)3. Alter RegenerateAll the packages dependent on the NSP are being invalidated and ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Converting ZCEE WOLA to ZCEE JVM

Currently the connection between zCEE and DVM is over WOLA. This setup requires a 1:1 zCEE server for each DVM subsystem that needs to expose web services. We would like to see an alternative interface added that would allow multiple DVMs to be se...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Get TSmodel nugget's results using Python on SPSS Modeler 18.x or higher versions

When generating a nugget from a Temporal Series model, we need to get model metadata from Python code. For example, if the TS Model is configured to indicate the technique automatically using the Expert Modeler Parameter after the Nugget generatio...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sandbox Non-commit feature and sharing of Sandbox

We have come across the business requirement as follows: Request to have these features be added to the Planning Analytics tool. 1. Can we restrict user to do only scenario planning in the sandbox but can't update (commit) the base instance? 2. Is...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

DB2 Dynamic Remove Active Log Command

I would like to be able to dynamically remove active log datasets from a DB2 subsystem/DB2 data sharing member that have a status of: STATUS=REUSABLESTATUS=TRUNCATED, REUSABLE This would allow DB2 active log datasets to be resized, without closing...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered