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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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Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature.

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature, this would default to index scans rather than a table scan if there are no statistics.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.

Add a feature similar to DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation.

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation. Then we can see which sql could benefit from optimizer hints to reduce cpu usage and improve performance.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Rotate lsb.acct in every hour

We can only rotate lsb.acct in every day, but we can't do it in every hour or with customized interval time slot. Please add this feature.
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Planned for future release

PAW: Customized login error messages for non authorized users

Problem: When setting up PAW to allow for user imports (ENABLE_USER_IMPORT = false configuration setting) the message a user that tries to log on to Planning Analytics license without being set up as a PAW user is not user friendly and looks very...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing the QUERYNO in the accesspath for static sql

When I look at any APDETAIL of a static sql it does not show me the value of the QUERYNO even though in the report the field exists.Not all columns of the PLAN_TABLE will be shown in the access path details. The columns that are not shown, though,...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

db2logscan should be able to read compressed logs

The utility db2logscan, which is now bundled with Db2 is not able to read compressed logs. So with compressed logs we cannot estimate the recommended sync settings for HADR.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration