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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Customize where Team Content folder appears

In Cognos 11.1.2 we were able to hide Team Content from the home page because we were able to set up a Custom folder from which our clients were able to launch reports. However all of the packages used to create dashboards were located in the Team...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Export/Download PAW book in Excel format

When we export/download any PAW book, we have options like Image, PDF & PowerPoint. We would like to have another option for Excel.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Configuration switch to restore 10.x E-Mail behavior sending from generic mail address

In Cognos Analytics e-mails, for example Reports run by schedule and link send by mail, are send with the owner's mail address as sender. In some organisations it is necessary to have colleagues change a report, a schedule, an event, ... then the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Needs a clean-up solution when open thread is active and there is an IMS outage

Please refer to the PMR:01622,69G,760.-----------------------------My customer does not want to restart the apply server when recovering the IMS failure.This is because the replication stop time expands and the data reflection on the target is del...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration