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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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Enhance TEMP index purge performance under high concurrency

In the environments that use a high number of temporary tables (DGTTs/CGTTs) with indexes, performance of temp object instantiation is severely impacted under high concurrency, i.e. when we have many objects dropped and recreated at the same time ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0

unable to update an existing column with varchar definition.

a column defined as varchar returns an error "no more extents" when tried to update. Work around is tedious as we need to unload millions of records, then reload it again.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

RTM Database - Selective Data storage based up ClusterID

In RTM I have several clusters. They are identified by ClusterID numbers. There is a ClusterID which is Test or LAB cluster. I use that cluster to test LSF configurations. I run several 1000 jobs. As a result in current configuration the Job start...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow to set Retention for Informix PSM backup images

Current Informix PSM will keep all backup images (Level 0, physical DBspaces backu, logical logs backup, config files backup) in a specific path in filesystem. PSM yet to have housekeeping tool on these backup images.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Preempt real memory usage reported by a preemptable job

Memory preemption only works with the reserved memory (rusage[mem=X]) by the preemptable job. However, if the preemptable job uses more memory than the reserved, it may happen that a LSF thinks a preemptive job does not fit on the node because of ...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

CHCCLP event monitoring restructuring

CHCCLP returns events from the oldest to the newest, with a limit of 10000 events returned. When using CHCCLP to monitor subscription activity, the intent should be to get the most recent events and current status of subscriptions, not the oldest ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Planned for future release

Report re-prompt issue

Issue: While running report, we are getting the prompt page for the first time and after selecting few prompt values and run the report. In second run, if we click on the report instead of showing Prompt page again, it is showing the previous run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Top and Bottom filtered values for every Row Repeat and Column Repeat in visualization

Currently, overall Top and Bottom n values are displayed in a visualization irrespective of the Row and Column repeat. For example, Dimension is 'Item' and filter applied on dimension is Top 10, Measure is 'Revenue' and Repeat Row is 'Sale Year' w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report: Equal To operator for filters in filter condition

In report, equal to operator is missing for filters while applying filter condition.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists