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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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I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Value prompt vs. Tree prompt Settings

1- It would be useful to have a "Show Select All" option in the bottom of the Tree prompt box (same as Value prompt)2 - It would be useful that the same color would be used when hovering over the available options of a prompt box so that the color...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition coomon container for version 11.5.7 and 11.5.8

Db2 Warehouse Enterprise edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common container are delivered and available for push via IBM Cloud repository. Due to unknown reasons Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common containers are missing and are n...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Warehouse 2 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not display deleted reports in the "Recent Items" list.

Deleted reports should not be listed in the "Recent Items" list.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration