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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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RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Screen Shift when a widget is click on

Ability to configure this action. Currently, when you click on a widget in PAW, it shifts the screen to make that widget the primary focus. Would like the ability to configure PAW so that this can be turned on or off.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Report Template on the Fly

It would be very handy to have the ability to change the selected template for a report during it's development and not have to start over it you need to switch from Freeform to a predetermined layout.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to bulk export/push jobs from Data Flow Designer to GITHUB repository

In the current 11.7 implementation, each datastage job has to be pushed on to GITHUB repository. Say that there are 100 jobs in a datastage project, each job has to be opened in the flow designer and then published to the GITHUB repo. This is a ti...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

In the Business Entity Task View, show all Risks associated to Processes / Subprocesses for this Business Entity ONLY

Requirement: In the Business Entity Task View, show all Risks associated to Processes / Subprocesses for this Business Entity ONLY . Actual: displaying all risks for ANY process/subprocess in that entity or below. Support team confirmed this behav...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow inplace reorg of tables with XML columns

Lift the restriction on being able to do an inplace reorg of a table when the table contains an XML column.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration