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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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Only in-memory Temp table

Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

PAx: Display attributes in rows in Explorations and Quick Reports

Related to PMR 86027,660,706 We need to display members attributes in rows or columns. Attributes generally give to the end user additional information during the input period. We tried various ways, like adding DBRA functions to the Quick Report ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Numeric Range Picklist

There are many occassion that we may need to create a picklist with numeric range, say 1~100 or maybe 1%~100%, and including decimal places. If we need to do it using the traditional way like static: or dimension: or subset:, the list could be ver...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Switch from non-interactive to interactive report

A report with V11 abilities to interact with it will not work with this feature when it is a drill through form a report without this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration