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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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support list partitioning - Range-Partitioning allows only to define the upper limit for a partitioned Tablespace.

Full Support for LIST-Partitioning required! With classical Partitioning or UTS Partion-by-Range you can only define the upper limits (key-Ranges) for a partitioned Tablespace. The lower partition-range ist defined by the highest value of the next...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Would like to have a report version icon in Portal

Reports in the portal should have a visual indicator ex. icon to show when a version is available for it as per Cognos 10
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add MERGE-functionality on LOAD-utility

MR0112077423 GGDB207006
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove an alias from a subset

The TI function SubsetAliasSet can be very useful. But what if we want to remove the alias from the subset and just return principal names ? Is this function/possibility missing ? Can't we reuse the last argument in SubsetAliasSet, supply an empty...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Add and drop include columns to/from unique index as a pending change

To accomplish high availability for schema changes in a 24/7 environment, an addition of an Include Column to a unique index should be implemented as a pending change that is materialized by an online REORG. Dropping an include column from a uniqu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted