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REORG TABLESPACE WHERE LIMITKEY BETWEEN X and Y

With the ADD PART and ROTATE, the logical and physical partitions on a tablespace can be out of ORDER. Current REORG at PART Level is for physical partitions, and requires DBA to search catalog to find all required PARTS.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE is an easy way to save lock list and lock acquire for tables that just get accessed by a single application at a given time.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Multithreaded Refresh for iSeries

Currently when a refresh occurs in iSeries to DS_FF or any other DB it uses the native method to do the refresh with single threaded - This can be improved by using the JDBC method where they should be able to use multithreaded. In the iSeries Cur...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Not under consideration

Need a UMAP 3D visualization feature similar to Arize

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a technique for visualizing the embedding representation of a dataset using dimension reduction. It has many similarities with t-SNE as well as some very critical differences that have made U...
9 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Under review

Enhancement for Universal Reports to support the TM1REBUILDOPTION parameter

I've been asked by IBM support to request an Enhancement (to fix an obvious bug with Uni Reports) that will allow the parameter TM1REBUILDOPTION to recalculate/refresh a Uni report upon loading. Currently, in Excel, we have a number of Uni Reports...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add zoom function to Active Report Viewer

It would be nice to have zoom functionality in the Active Report Viewer client to get rid of the scrollbars when opening report on a laptop with smaller screen.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable OpenID Connect for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

We would like to use OpenID Connect instead of creating secrets every year for the connection to our Azure AD. See also case number TS012088126
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted