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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 compression for LOBs that are not inline

Customer would like non-inline LOBS to also be compressed, as inline LOBs can currently be. Many other datatypes can be compressed and there are many large (up to 20MB) LOBs that are stored outside the table that would not eat up so much space if ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

JDBC connect from Cognos to Optim

Need to connect optim from Cognos using JDBC in Linux. case raised :TS001355101
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

First of all please include Log Analysis for red hat in your Product pick list. Second, I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The development team sent me instructions. I would like to see this RBAC in a future release

We operate in a multi-tenant environment. Users do not want to see (or in some cases not permitted to see) events unrelated to their roles. IBM developers have come up with an ingenious way to implement RBAC for Log Analysis.
about 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

XML as a datasource in 64bit

I am trying to use XML as a source for one our reports. When we moved from Cognos 10.x to 11.0.5, we get rid of all 32 bit dispatchers and made everything as 64bit only. How when I try to use the XML source, it fails since it can only work in Comp...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the company template as default

We have migrated to 11.0.12 recently and would like to make a template for our company and make it a standard template for all the reports. After the template creation we would like to make it selected by default for all users so they don't have t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix documentation for oncheck command should be crystal clear

Informix documentation for oncheck command does not explain clearly that this command should be run only during a maintenance window or during an off-hours period because the oncheck utility places a shared lock on system catalog tables when the d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Progress bar while running a report

Oftentimes, when we are running a large report (that could take for example 10 minutes), we would like to see the progress of the loading of the report. This way, we could see if the loading got stuck, or if a report still needs only 1 minute, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Have Sticky Filters on Dashboards

I would like to have a dashboard with defined filters where users could view the Dashboard and in view mode change the filter values and NOT have to save the Dashboard. The next time they open the Dashboard, it would have their last filter values....
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration