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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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Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Remove The Need To REORG A Table Up On Performing Table Alter/REORG Recommended Operations

Today when we perform certain operations aka REORG recommended operations against a table like adding columns, dropping columns, changing datatype of a column, altering NULLABILITY of a column etc. the table will be put in a state called REORG pen...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Include/exclude fields from bulk update in TFUI & do not force update of controller fields

Please allow for configuration of which fields within an object can be bulk updated. This way, bulk update can honor the fields that are editable in a task view. Please do not force update/selection of controller fields. I understand why you would...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Assistant / Ask a question in Reporting

The assistant functionality where questions can be asked is readily available in Dashboards & Explorations. This RFE is to add similar functionality in reporting. We have a use-case where business-oriented people, that would only occasionally ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

PAW - Recent workbooks in main drop down list menu

The home screen of PAW allows users to select a recent workbook that they had open. It would be fantastic to have this same option in the main drop down list menu in the top left, to avoid having to first navigate to the home screen before being a...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Hide the criticality and the due date field for Workflows

The criticality and the due date fields are not always used by the customer. There is no way to hide these fields because when they appear on the UI they confuse the end user. And this confusion actually hurts the zero training UI stance of OpenPa...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Allow External Backup on HDR Secondary

It should be possible to run external backups on HDR Secondary (beneath unbar/ontape backups). Probably the necessary enhancement is just to implement onmode -c block/unblock on HDR secondaries (update reserved pages).
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration