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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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fast load for CDC PostgreSQL

Building out replication from IMS to PostgreSQL, we tested a refresh of 1.7 mil records which would take an estimated 11 hours. With 428 tables some over 50 mil. We need a faster way to refresh the tables. In addition to normal build out we need t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Enable DSN1COMP to work on compressed tablespace data

We want DSN1COMP to be able to work with compressed table data. These days we've got an usecase, where we needed to check, if a new compression dictionary will saves us some MB/GB in a nearly completly full tablespace. Because of his size, we were...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

"Reorg force all" should kill all existing (active or inactive) threads which belong to the object which would be reorganized

we have many tables which are changed and selected 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. So this tables need more reorgs than other not so much changed tables but it is not possible to make a reorg (force all) because there are Spufi User with autocommi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

XStream agent should not try to activate supplemental logging for tables which already have it

We've seen the XStream Oracle agent trying to activate supplementar logging during an agent restart and during subscription restarts. On a specific customer environment this becomes very critical, because the application maintains open transaction...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

IDAA behavior when replicated table is suspended

In our environment we replicate tables and we then expect the IDAA copy to be kept in sync with the DB2 table (within reason). If a table gets 'suspended' for whatever the reason, the data on that table begins to grow stale. Queries submitted agai...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered

Improve speed and stability of Controller when have large numbers company locks (XACCLOCK table)

If a customer has a complicated company structure (e.g. with many different actualities) then after they create company locks for all their periods/actualities, XACCLOCK becomes absolutely enormous For example, one of our customers has 22 million ...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

IMAGECOPY support: LOAD PART to support STACK YES like REORG PART

For the subject image copy behavior in the LOAD utility, it is as the customer describes: COPYDDN can be specified at the job / table space level but requires the RESUME or REPLACE keywords at the table space level, so this would effectively resul...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

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

Db2 Admin Tool - issue regenerate view after table column alter

After altering a table column referenced by a view an alter regenerate view should be issued as best practice. IBM Db2 Admin Tool does not issue the regenerate view command currently and we believe it should. After discussing with Db2 Support and ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered