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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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Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Inheritance of PRIQTY/SECQTY Parameters for LOB and Index Spaces in Newly Activated PBG Partitions

In a Universal Table Space (UTS) defined as Partition-by-Growth (PBG), when a base table includes a LOB column, the initial LOB table space and its associated index can be explicitly defined with specific primary and secondary space allocation par...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

XML export of views

Hello, It would be very helpful to have a native option in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) to export views directly as XML files. Currently, we have implemented a workaround that is quite elaborate: The Excel file is downloaded via the export...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Data captured in long transactions with guaranteed delivery to destination

It is usefull because sometimes a very long transaction pass through the Capture process but can´t be delivered causing memory lack at destination. The benefit would be not losing the data transferred to the destination. One suggestion would be to...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 2 Needs more information

Chat UI support for UI widgets (forms, tables, non-textual response types)

Currently, agent chat can support text-based responses only. We are looking for chat UI enhancement so that UI widgets can be rendered in the chat to display input/output forms, interactive tables with radio buttons for data selection, and non-tex...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Delivered

Automated Update Statistics and FORCE

AUS appends FORCE to UPDATE STATISTICS statements saved in "sysadmin:aus_command.aus_cmd_exe" when using C function "aus_evaluate_stats" but not when using SPL "aus_evaluator". Both need a configuration parameter to enable or disable FORCE. Some s...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Allow inplace reorgs cleanup overflows on partitioned tables with global indexes

We are seeing more OLTP customers moving from Db2 z/OS who require the ability to cleanup overflows through reorg on their partitioned tables which have been defined with global indexes.
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

To replicate data from Postgresql Source database to Target DB2 without SUPERUSER privilege at source database.

Dear All, We are replicating data from Source Postgresql to Target DB2 database, which requires SUPERUSER privilege at source database to CDC user. We are not able to MAP tables in CDC management console without SUPERUSER privilege. This is an enh...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release