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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 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

Informix Query Engine generates bad query/explain plan

There are situations where two or more columns from the same table are related to each other. For example, product_type and product_code from the products table are related, since only certain product_code values can be associated with a given pro...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

db2move copy option for partitioned tablespaces

Please implement tablespace map for db2move copy option for partitioned tables, the above pmr has more details on the issue. db2move accepts a tablespace map, but if the souce database has a partitioned table it just fails with a syntax error when...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Restore only data

It should be allowed to restore only the data of a table if the data and indexes of a table are stored in different tablespaces.
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

R2PRO00006892 - include a matching timestamp for a given activity record in all the tables

Farmers currently retains 4+1 rolling months of WLM activity data involving the following WLM tables, and we would like to add a 'date' column having a default valude current timestamp in these 3 tables: - ACTIVITY_DB2ACTIVITIES_V97 - ACTIVITYMETR...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support XA transactions on column-organized tables

We have a main DW database on DB2 for z/OS and a Datamart on DB2 for LUW. Some tables on both z/OS and LUW are populated using Cobol programs which are submitted from the mainframe. We want to convert the Datamart on DB2 LUW to BLU, but the Cobol ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

predicates blocked when temp table involved in federated joins

Unacceptable slowness and/or timeout for affected SQL due to predicate blocking resulting in fetching all data from backend
about 11 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Not under consideration

Auth to EXCHANGE CLONE Tables

This is very similar to an RFE that i submitted for MQTs...ID : 39165'Auth to Refresh Table for MQT'Under Consideration We have the same situation for CLONE Tables. The developers wish to run the EXCHANGE using Dynamic SQL, but the RACF ID that ru...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration