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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc. ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Reorg online with a mapping table

It will be very helpful to have a new reorg online with a mapping table like on DB2 z/OS with the same performance level.
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Refresh MQT access

We have a situation where the application team wants the access to refresh their MQTs, but all the available options give them over entitlements other than just refresh. • Ownership of the materialized query table - gives application team access t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Build in Support for Teradata Temporal Tables

The current CDC product for a DB2 Linux implementation supports the use of DB2 Temporal Tables. We can replicate data from VSAM, DB2 zOS, and IMS to DB2 Linux Temporal Tables without any extra effort. Under a similar use case, we have instances wh...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

SQL Instr function like %substring in IIDR MC

We use IIDR CDC for replication. There are source database columns which contains personal customer information as PAN (personal account number) and sensitive and strictly prohibited to replicate it without encoding due to information protection a...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Declarative RI for Db2 LUW Bitemporal tables

it would be good to implement Bi-temporal Period Containment with declarative RI in Db2 LUW
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL instance is only DUAL from build 5607, only-source is needed

Since build 5607 of 27 September the CDC PostgreSQL instance has become DUAL (supports source and target). For security reasons it would be essential for us to have the possibility to make the instance only source as it is possible to do with the ...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration