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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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Migrate folders within PAW using life cycle management

When we need to migrate dashboards from one server to another or between different environments in one server, we can't keep the folder structure from the source server.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Adding of a new apply parameter DBLOAD_OPTIONS in order to influence an automatic load performed by the Q-Replication apply program on column-organized tables.

A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in a column of a column-organized table. When you load data into a column-organized table, the first phase is the analyze phase, which is unique to column-organized tables.The analyze phase ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Allow more the 40 characters in a "Label" when creating a new Panel in the Dashboard

Some of our data is very specific, and we need to be more explanatory in the panel labels
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

LISTAGG - Reduce workfile usage of function LISTAGG

The function LISTAGG uses a lot of workfile space. This can lead to abends, especially if there are many groups. This is the specific case where the problem occurred in our company: SELECT A.GES_SL, A.VNR, A.POS_LNR , SUBSTR(LISTAGG(TA_ID,'/') WIT...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Reset and Collect new statistics in one go

We sometimes need to reset the old statistics in regards to access path selection.This is possible by RUNSTATS ... RESET ACCESSPATH. But in some cases the new RUNSTATS run long enough so that DYNAMIC SQL statements can slip into this timegap.Hence...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

Have a level set in CBPDO

Recently we order DB2 QM V3.3 for new customer installation. The source is about 29GB within lots PTFs in SMPPTFIN. We checked the oldest PTF is GA on 2016. But those older PTFs will be supercede by the later PTFs. Could the lab gen a level set PT...
11 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 3 Delivered