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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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Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

To and CC fields dynamic when bursting.

When bursting a report, need the ability to change the To and CC fields based on columns in report.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

ICP4D v4.6.5 PROD [MDI]: MSSQL Connection Configuration should not have database as mandatory field

We are facing issues while connecting with MSSQL databases from ICP4D/WKC. Typically each VAST ID for the MSSQL database has few instances and hundreds of databases, therefore the connection setting shouldn't have the database field as mandatory. ...
5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

AI Forecasting - Cube Logging

Currently, the forecasting process doesn't turn off cube logging, so we often end up having huge transaction logs. If you could add a toggle button for cube logging in the advanced setting of 'Forecast', it would be extremely helpful.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

allow distributed queries when BLOBs involved

When trying to reference a table which contains a BLOB data type using syntax ddbb@dbservername:table, the following error is returned: error 9270: Type (informix.blob) is unsupported in distributed queries.
8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable zEDC for Tempdatasets

Actually no temporary Datasets are zEDC eligible, i suppose because there is no long term benefit in space reduction. Especially DB2 with LISTDEF (for example Reorg Tablespace LIST with SORTDEVT specification of very large Tablespaces) would benef...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration