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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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dynamically allocated 1000000 locks

this message will start to show repeatedly in the online log:dynamically allocated 1000000 locksbut no more info than that - in order to track down the issue, we need to know what session is causing the increase in locks
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MERGECOPY only a subset of incremental ICs

System: Db2 for z/OS - UTILITY - MERGECOPYActor: DBA MERGECOPY is used to merge Full IC with Incrementals to build new Full which is far more faster to recover than full + set of incrementals. Merging a subset of incrementals (from the date of ful...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting Time Functions should use the Time zone set in Cognos Global Configuration

Reporting Time Functions and Tool box items should use the time zone that has been defined in Server Time Zone in Global Configuration.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repair DBD Utility wont abend with dump while trigger found on a none existing table

regular running check repair DBD on systems. repair dbd abends when a database was found with triggers pointing on tables objects that does not existist any longer.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Update LASTUSED info for table more frequently

When new table is created, some migration is performed and similar it is pretty important info when object was last accessed. Db2 has LASTUSED, e.g SYSCAT.TABLES.LASTUSED column, but the data in this column can be according to documentation up to ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager should permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures

the current Framework Manager 11.1.1 does not permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures without need for prompts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manual HADR takeover should fail, if standby is in bad shape

Manual HADR takeover without FORCE should fail, if standby is in good shape.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow to access a database during a pause in a roll forward

During a roll forward, it will be helpful to access the database in read mode in order to identify the point where to open the database. If it is not the desired point, then apply more logs, until find the desired point.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration