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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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Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Option to configure PAW logging in Local timezone.

At this point, there is no way to change the logging timezone in PAW from GMT to local, would like to have feature to change PAW logging from GMT to local timezone.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable 'db2move' to change definitions during COPY SCHEMA

Using a list of schemas with db2move COPY schema function allows to copy a database content including function and procedure definitions from one database to another,And in the default mode "DDL_AND_LOAD", it copies definitions and loads data usin...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration