I understand bandwidth and performance and all that, but not being able to re-open closed tickets is killing us. We report on tickets and ticket fields and which means we only have a few days to find/correct errors. If we don't, we have to manually fix our reports or create a follow up ticket that has the wrong date information.
There's also ongoing/long-term support for a past ticket/issue. As it stands now, we have to keep it in "pending" status, which ruins our performance metrics or create a NEW ticket for the follow-up, which means using even more bandwidth and/or resources.