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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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Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

WML should run Modeler Extension nodes in realtime deploy

I have a Modeler Flow stream with "Extension" nodes (R or PySpark or Python) and some libraries inside. I want to deploy this stream in Watson Machine Learning to make a real time scoring. However, the system raises an unknown error when I try to ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Access Detail > Allow to open an MDX View

It would be nice if drill through could authorized to open an MDX View (with Hierarchies and attributes directly shown)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Please add a built-in function to reverse a string

Currently to reverse a string, we have to create a udf. The syntax for a simple one was easily available on the SQLTips4Db2 blog .... which IBM has removed. I think Db2 on z has this, and some other variants of SQL out there include it. This is th...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Please add a built-in function for pi

Currently there is no built-in function for pi. It can be calculated using math on trigonometric functions, but this is mildly annoying. Pi is frequently used when working with different random variate distributions and other functions that are in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

REORG SORTDATA NO should unload to shadow datasets and not unload to SYSREC

Changing DSSIZE for large table using SORTDATA NO, unloads to SYSREC. Since the volume of data is so large, SYSREC needs to go to tape. This causes the reorg to have greater elapsed time. Unloading to the shadows would greatly reduce the elapsed t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to Edit/Modify PAW Calculations

When creating a custom calculation in PAW or adding a single number into the report ("Add to sheet"), it is not possible to view the logic / query nor to modify it. It would be helpful to be able to view and modify calculations and queries of sing...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench

It would be helpful to provide customers with easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench, which was withdraw. This application should have the following features: Generating DDL scripts for database objects View / edit comments f...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

When Base and LOB are being reorged in parallel, STACK should be NO

Currently, GOC is taking the value of STACK from the TEMPLATE. If it is YES, the REORG abends. This needs to be changed to NO when BASE and LOB are being reorged in parallel
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration