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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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Add SYSDISC DSNTIAUL format to REORG utility

Sometimes there's a need to repopulate DB2 tables concatenating outputs from REORG SYSDISC and DSNTIAUL in a single LOAD SYSREC file. So the idea is to have a parameter like REORG ... SYSDISC FORMAT INTERNAL|DSNTIAUL. Basically the difference betw...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CDC must show before image when failing to update a row

Opening this RFE as support refused to accept it as a bug.Currently when CDC can't find a row to apply an UPDATE it states something like:"Failed to update a row in table USER.TABLE. VI_NIF: [364729Y]VI_TSTAMPG: [2018-02-08 21:19:40.293305000000] ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Temporal support for RLF tables

If you are trying to understand why a thread was aborted by RLF or not, it would be helpful to know what the contents of the RLF tables were at a certain point in time.
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Capture SQL Error Codes in Db2 COBOL Program Accessing DVM Tables

We are using a COBOL program to access DVM tables via an alias created on a three part name. If the program fails while performing a SQL call to one of the virtual DRDA tables, the program only receives a -1 SQLCODE. We would like for the program ...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration