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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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Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature on TFUI that would allow for a pop-up window that would let the user enter text.

In instances where a user would need to enter a lot of text, were asking for a pop-up to appear where it can be re-sized for the end user's preference.
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Query Nodes - Allow Certain Members of a DB2 Group to Process Queries Against OLTP Data Without Interfering with OLTP

In a DB2 for z/OS data-sharing group, allow customers to designate certain DB2 members as "query-only" subsystems. A "query-only" subsystem, or "query node" would process queries for analytics and business intelligence against the same databases a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim support on open source Linux

We are limited to using RHEL for Optim installs on Linux. Supporting other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or AlmaLinux is desirable to drive down support costs.
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
about 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display Custom System Use Notification at first Login

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) have similar information technology control requirements based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 4) Secur...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration