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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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Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Multiple Columns on LOAD INTO TABLE WHEN Criteria

We recently converted from BMC to IBM Db2 utilities. It would be very useful if multiple column names could be specified on the WHEN criteria for the Db2 LOAD utility. This would also make the functionality similar to the WHEN criteria of REORG WI...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

Db2 Warehouse Need support for columnar tables when case insensitivity is configured

System: IBM Integrated Analytics SystemActor: Customer requiring capability My customer is migrating from Teradata to Db2 Warehouse (IIAS appliance). The appliance has been configured for Row-organized tables because case insensitivity is required...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBM i does not support XML data type

1. Problem description – IBM Infosphere Data Replication (CDC) for IBMi does not support XML data type. When you want to replicate the data of a table using CDC, but the table contains a column of XML data type, CDC indicates that replication is n...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration