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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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Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for system versioned tables

This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration
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Restore a table from a backup (full Online) on Netbackup

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Customer would like to restore a table from backup. Currently they've to restore tablespace or backup and then export/import the table.
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Future consideration

CDC Support for MSSQL SYSTEM_VERSIONED_TEMPORAL_TABLE

CDC MSSQL Agent should support also SYSTEM_VERSIONED_TEMPORAL_TABLE Tables as Source.
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 7 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

schema-privilege for USAGE ON SEQUENCE

To GRANT USAGE ON SEQUENCE there is only the old method with db2 grant usage on sequence sq_test to role <rolename> But i want to use schema-privileges, but there is not the function GRANT USAGEIN ON SCHEMA MYSCHEMA TO ROLE <rolename> ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration