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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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parallel refresh of tables

the refresh of a suscription is done table by table, it is very slow in case of big suscription. the Idea is to do transfert+load many table in parallel.
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add an ability to start a q subscription via MODIFY on the Capture started task

Currently Q Capture subscriptions can be interacted with either via MODIFY command invoked on a Q Capture started task, or SQL insert statements executed on table IBMQREP_SIGNAL. For many customers, executing a MODIFY command to perform an action ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Future consideration

Enhance DB2 System Profile’s history table

Although DB2 profile history tables are available, they cannot currently provide a complete history of enabled and disabled profiles. Actually, a DB2 profile is registered in the history tables only for START PROFILE commands, and only if the prof...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

To add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view.

We need other enhancements to add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view. When exceedingly large (i.e. millions and billions of rows), we need to look for primary and secondary keys, especially related to dates to add where conditi...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Future consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Data Protection Rules - Support of does not contain action

The action block in Data Protection Rules limits the condition to "That contains any", we need to be able to choose "Does not contain any" like in criteria block in order to achieve our needs (see attached image). Currently, classification at colu...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration