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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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Allow virtual rowid columns in fragmented by range tables

Allow rowid columns in tables fragmented by range or rolling window. Syntax "WITH ROWIDS" is already working but engine throws exception: Trying to execute: alter fragment on table pepe init with rowids fragment by range(fecmov) interval(interval(...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

CONTROL requirement for LOAD utility with REPLACE oprion on LBAC tables

Product: DB2 UDB V10.1Problem: LOAD uitility requiring to have CONTROL/DROP on table with LBAC security control when using LOAD REPLACE option. Description: our application team uses load utility with REPLACE option extesnively and with implementi...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

built in or external audit utility for Referential TSs

Many problems attempt recovery due to MRT issues with referential table and/or table with parts in multiple table spaces. Need tool to state which table spaces must be recovered together due to relationships. This should be done at backup time aut...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
about 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration