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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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Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Request to enable the clearance of asymmetric MDX views when data processing.

Asymmetric MDX represent the general case of a data set in PA, an Asymmetric view is typically delivered with and MDX filter. The ViewZeroOut function currently does not support the clearance of MDX views that contain a filter statement. The lack ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add Column Headers in a PAW View

When you have a 2 dimensional view in PAW, we would like to group the elements displayed in the columns to make the display more readable. The aim is to display this grouped name above the column elements (simulating something similar to stacking ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Incrase in the line quantity when export file cvs on dashboard

Increse of the number rows to file CSV in the export.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

implement pod load balancing for all services run on CP4D

Our current problem affects STT, where the gateway selects randomly a pod to serve incoming requests. No load balancing logic is currently included in the gateway which impacts the sizing logic for the services. Most products include a load balanc...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration