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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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Reorging a TS with NPSIs, SORT NPSI = AUTO, getting IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE FOR which resulted in DSNU3341I 171 01:39:59.85 DSNURPCT - CANNOT ALLOCATE SORT DATASETS WITHIN 255 LIMIT , REORG should change to SORTNPSI = NO to prevent abend

Reorg TS with NPSIs and SORTNPSI or zparm REORG_PART_SORT_NPSI = AUTO. Reorg decides to run with SORTNPSI YES which sorts all keys for NPSIs. Job is having issues getting DASD resulting in numerous: 01.39.58 J0916868 IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server.

Add bloom filters similar to SQL Server. https://sqlperformance.com/2019/08/sql-performance/batch-mode-bitmaps-in-sql-server This is complex bitmaps "This sets one or more bits in the bitmap structure according to the result of applying one or mor...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow 3 different options for statement concentration.

We would like 3 options for statement concentration. It is importantthat all three options are available. 1. No concentration. (already exists) 2. Concentrate queries that have no parameter markers (Current DB2 concentration) 3. Concentrate querie...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Function to include upload file info such as modified date to a report

We need the ability to show when the upload file was created/modified in our data module for dashboard and reports. It is important for the report-users to know when the upload was refreshed. Other upload attributes such as owner and file name mig...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

System Administrator option to prevent user login, disconnect existing users and display notification message.

When an administrator needs to perform some system maintenance operations we may need to keep users out of the system - but the system has to remain up. Eg. Large hierarchy change with data moves and security access changes. Or an upgrade where we...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration