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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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Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create pdf-file of PAW-dashboard automatically

A customer wants a workflow in their weekly forecast process that works like this: A submitter updates the figures in a forecast and click on a button that triggers a process. This process notifies a predefined approver by e-mail. The wish is that...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have the DB2 CLP Support Database Names Greater Than 8 Characters

The DB2 CLP does not recognize database names or aliases that are greater than 8 characters. Please enhance it to support longer database names.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel - Enable Application URL links to work

Application URL references are created as follows: In the Server Explorer, right-click the Application to which you want to add the URL reference, and click Add URL on the shortcut menu, and enter URL (for example: http://www.Company.com). And the...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) ARM64 Source version for Linux (RHEL9)

Spectrum Storage Scale (GPFS) is needed for new NVIDIA Grace Hopper ARM64 Superchip HPC Nodes.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration