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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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API to write dictionary to log

A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
6 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

New API operation for fraud marking a record in the whole cluster

The existing markFraud API operation receives as an input a URID that is specific of the API instance that will process this operation. This creates a possible information gap if the API instance that will process this operation is different from ...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Oracle stored procedure support with DRDA-passthrough

We need to have support for Oracle Stored procedure and sequence using DRDA-passthrough. At the moment we have programs running on z/Os that are using Oracle client that is out of support and will no longer be working with the latest Oracle releas...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Planned for future release