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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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Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Case TS000932532 - Load should be able to bypass a GENERATED-ALWAYS-from-variable column

ProblemA load on a table containing a certain type of GENERATED ALWAYS column fails with the very odd message "Unexpected load gencol section".Research pointed out that LOAD cannot handle in any way a GENERATED ALWAYS column getting its informatio...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add zoom function to Active Report Viewer

It would be nice to have zoom functionality in the Active Report Viewer client to get rid of the scrollbars when opening report on a laptop with smaller screen.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

REORG TABLESPACE WHERE LIMITKEY BETWEEN X and Y

With the ADD PART and ROTATE, the logical and physical partitions on a tablespace can be out of ORDER. Current REORG at PART Level is for physical partitions, and requires DBA to search catalog to find all required PARTS.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Support for imbedded SQL comments in DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT

Full support of imbedded SQL comments in DB2 DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

“Cascading Prompt“ Functionality in “My Parameters”

In Recent release of Cognos Analytics R7, New Function called "My Parameters". There is no "Cascading Prompt” in "My Parameters”, Will It be possible for "Cascading Prompt" in "My Parameters”? The Prompts in "My Parameters" are independent, ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Would like to see integration of PowerPlay with Cognos Analytics 11 as in older versions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration