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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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Unload LOCK YES Drain Writers instead of executing LOCK TABLE

When executing HPU in Native MODE with parameters ULLOCK = YES, ULLOCKTE = LOCK and ULLOCKMO = NATIVE_ONLY HPU executes a EXEC SQL LOCK TABLE. Sometimes table being locked is in a TS whose a IX TS lock was left in DB2 due to this table be used in ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse Need support for columnar tables when case insensitivity is configured

System: IBM Integrated Analytics SystemActor: Customer requiring capability My customer is migrating from Teradata to Db2 Warehouse (IIAS appliance). The appliance has been configured for Row-organized tables because case insensitivity is required...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Report references within Dashboards

It would be a nice to have feature to reference a report or an object within a report within a dashboard. Similar to the same functionality as Cognos Workspace had -- where you could reference a list or crosstab of a report and link the items toge...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sparse Index - sub select in where condition

The Where possibility in the Sparse Index is great. To get more flexibility it would be great if you include the possibility to use the sub select in the where condition. This can replace fixed values. Thanks.
3 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for entire schema

During SAP system migration all objects in a schema need TRANSFER OWNERSHIP. This takes quite long (many minutes) for > 100.000 objects.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Improve persistent thread concurrency

With the implementation of transactions with persistent threads (like pseudo wait-for-input on IMS) we have been facing some concurrency issues in our site, specially with HPU and batch programs that perform lock escalation. This happens because t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Multi select dropdown prompts

Hi Team, We woud love to have the multi-select value prompts as a drop down along with list or check box.I could see this functionality when I run the reports on IPAD but in desktop the reports aren't pretty with a list box.We have over 10 prompts...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending 1 email with multiple reports for a scheduled job

Looking for ability to create a single scheduled job that runs multiple reports (or report booklets) but send them all attached to a single email when completed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PASS to support Vertical Text Format

In Excel, there are many instance we need to use vertical formattinng, detail can refer to here: https://turbofuture.com/computers/Tutorial-MS-Excel-How-to-write-text-vertically-or-at-an-angle-in-an-Excel-sheet#:~:text=Click%20on%20a%20cell%20and,...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration