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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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Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Standard simulation tool for the import

Most modern application providing import features do have a simulation option that enable to check what lines / data cannot be integrated because of rules. This enable the users to correct the import without changing the content (e.g. : the lines ...
4 months ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Updated replacement for Analysis Studio

We need an updated interface to replace Analysis Studio legacy application. As of now, there are no equivalent capabilities that are easy-to-use adhoc query capabilities of Analysis Studio. Our company has relied heavily on this tool and now that ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration