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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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Drop partition in UTS PBR RPN tablespaces

Dropping partitions in a tablespaces can only be done by dropping and re-creating the entire tablespace In earlier versions of DB2 for z/OS you could not add partition to an existing tablespace. Consequently we created about 60 tablespaces with 25...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Control over grid view column widths in Task Focused UI

We're finding grid views have disproportionate column widths in Task Focused UI (in terms of reader usability/readability) . If users/administrators had the ability to define the column widths, it would allow them to ensure the widths were appropr...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

real append processing on insert for LOB when specifying append

Our customers send us many millions of documents every day, which we have to save in the form of LOBs very quickly and without interruption in DB2. For this we use the APPEND option to be able to process the inserts as quickly as possible. Unfortu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be controlled by groups

The average configuration of OpenPages sees a heavy usage of the Dashboard and currently if a dashboard is getting too cluttered you are forced to either train the user to remove the widgets themselves, or to create a new profile (a very heavy lif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

jupyter7 support in spectrum conductor 2.5.x

currently jupyter6 pkg is available for IBM spectrum conductor , jupyter6 supports notebook6.x packages, all notebook 6.x pkgs are vulnerable with below CVEs FULL LIST ====== CVE-2020-7760 - codemirror before 5.58.2 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/det...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics: Possibility to secure views and sets

You can secure many Planning Analytics objects (e.g. cubes, elements, cells, applications..), but you cannot secure views or sets. In huge environments there are often many public views/sets and it would be great to have a user group-based securit...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add SCOPE(GROUP) to the Start/Stop Profile command

In our shop we have many Db2 data sharing members. If we need to stop and then start our profile tables we need to do so in many places. Adding the SCOPE(GROUP) to the both the start and the stop command would reduce the number of places and comma...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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