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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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64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Support INLINE xml column

Asking for INLINE LENGTH for XML column like LOB column. It will make more efficient the work for short XML's.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support partition level for PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES after altering to PAGENUM RELATIVE

When altering a table/table space and the state is PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES, in the most of the times we have to reorg the entire object. It take a lot of time and a lot of disk space for the shadow. Of course we do it with SORTDATA NO RECLUSTER...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Movement Account Audit Log

During 'system audit' the auditors are expecting to see a User Id assigned to all structural changes made within the chart of accounts. The user ID is populated when updated via the Maintain Account process but NOT when the Generate Movement Accou...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

PARSE node

Virtually all the source (input) nodes have some way of parsing out data items from a record or row. However, there is one source that does not have this functionality, and that is an incoming arrow from within the stream itself. Of course, this f...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Functions / Expressions to be used with multi row insert

Please allow expressions and or functions to be used within a multi row insert statement. I have an application inserting 1000 rows via multi row insert and the table has the POINTS columns which needs to be populated using the function ST_POINT. ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

inactive party contact methods – performance issue

We are maintaining history in the main tables only as we are end dating and adding new records for any demographics change. We have observed in Performance testing environment few Parties are having 500+ end dated record for Contact methods and 4 ...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Primary Key and Relationship Analysis

Currently, through API CTC can only perform Primary Key and Relationship Key analyses for all assets in the enrichment area. We need an API through which we can select individual assets (within an enrichment area) for Primary Key and Relationship ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release