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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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Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Port Cognos to ARM for Windows

ARM processors are the future. ARM processors provide significant infrastructure savings in large farms of servers.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Data Quality APIs

APIs for DQ. Accessing definitions from outside WKC, pushing definitions into WKC, etc.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Define “composite views” from 2 different cubes in the same grid in PAW

We have a large planning cube that has 350+ users capturing planning data on a product level based on insights gained from both string and numeric measures. Based on IBM's best practice, string measures should be removed from the planning cube if ...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Disable Add New Button in Grid View for specific Profiles.

Current settings "Disable Add New Global Launch Point" gives the possibility to disable Add New button for listed objects but this settings apply to all Profiles. it would be helpful if it were possible to specify, for each object, also which prof...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration