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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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Do not allocate MGM memory to UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ if index is used for sort

If an UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ is run, Informix will allocate memory for sorts from the memory grant manager (MGM). This happens regardless of whether there is any sorting to do. If a single indexed column is specified in t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorging a TS with NPSIs, SORT NPSI = AUTO, getting IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE FOR which resulted in DSNU3341I 171 01:39:59.85 DSNURPCT - CANNOT ALLOCATE SORT DATASETS WITHIN 255 LIMIT , REORG should change to SORTNPSI = NO to prevent abend

Reorg TS with NPSIs and SORTNPSI or zparm REORG_PART_SORT_NPSI = AUTO. Reorg decides to run with SORTNPSI YES which sorts all keys for NPSIs. Job is having issues getting DASD resulting in numerous: 01.39.58 J0916868 IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

Show DB2 Recovery progress status in the db2 master log

Improve the messaging in the db2 log in order to be able to have a better idea of the progress of a recovery and how long it might take. For instance, currently message DSNR048I is issued every 2 minutes during abort recovery. It would be very hel...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Page Browsing Function in Message List

In FTM MER, Message List, user has options to select the Next Page/Previous Page/First Page/ Last Page and browse the messages on that page. However, User is not having option to input the page number and browse the target page right away. It is v...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Standard report to count users by category (as defined in the licenses)

at least Profiles and the objects they use.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 5 Not under consideration