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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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BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary_tab...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort objects by type

In previous version of Cognos when viewing the continence of a folder could be sorted by type, so all packages would appear together, then by name. In Cognos Analytics all object are sorted alphabetically by name, or by modified date, regardless o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support Spark & Gluten in BlueRay

Now we are onboarding Gluten and Bolt has a very big ingestion need, we wanted to see if we can bring Spark and Gluten to BlueRay to further build a complete lakehouse reference customer story covering their full use case.
5 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Better Graphs and no sortheap spikes after DMC

More clarity of graphs values, easier to interpret graphs Sort heap spikes cause perf issues after DMC, No spikes i future versions will improve DB performance for all
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

CPU RAM Disk Stats

Hello From our point of view, it is better important to get stats about hardware resources (RAM, CPU, Disk) consumption as we have for our OnPremise PA apps. That is very useful because we can for example : follow up large calculations related to ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration