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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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Reorg: detailed information about Reorg incluiding a time/percent prediction to complete the all process

There is no way to find out how long the Reorg process or some steps will take, specially for big tables.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Latch information and more internals information for performance analysis

Detailed information about LATCH to DBA. More information of wait events would be good too like if a statement is waiting for a sequential read, how much the transaction is spending on network time , block concurrency, and so on.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were f...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CMTools for Linux

Please provide tool like CMTools.exe for Linux.We are really interested in it's CMTop tab.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Column mask for any data type

With the attention on protecting sensitive customer data in our industry being very high, having a simple way to mask data on any table in any environment is a powerful tool. If a data element such as SSN is stored as an unformatted numeric, curre...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Logout - Browser's Title Bar

When user's logout the message that is presented to him is customizable in Application Text but the same message is also displayed as a document's title that is shown in a browser's title bar. Therefore it would be better to have additional Applic...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Extend currently allow maximum ER replicate count from 65,536 to 262,144 max limit.

We are an ERP based vendor and we maintain more than 2,500 tables per single database. Some of our bigger costomers maintain around 100 such required databases for various activities. We are planning to migrate/upgrade our customer servers with ne...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support for EBS volume encryption

Cognos Analytics deployed on AWS cloud EC2 instances. The ability to use EBS encryption for data at rest
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release