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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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Enhance Db2 command: DISPLAY .. CLAIMERS

Display … claimers seems to hang.The wait Situation occurs when e.g.An ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN has to wait for an active statement to commit.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

pureScale load completion stage is very slow with range partitioned table

pureScale load of partition table is very slow at load completion stage, because db2 will purge local bufferpool for every partition of the table being loaded. ESE improved performance by purging once for all partitions. we wish this improvement i...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN & ALTER COLUMN for IDAA tables

IDAA should have the functionality of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN and ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN directly over table stored in IDAA without the need of remove, add and load the table in IDAA.
about 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Set APPLICATION_NAME and CLIENT_APPLNAME property on QMF tool level to easily identify QMF tool database connection

I have downloaded fresh new version of QMF for Workstation v13.1 on Windows 10. This issue is also present in previous versions, so not a regression on latest version. 1. Start QMF tool. 2. Connect to any Db2 database. I have connected to Db2 v11....
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add lock wait time to oncheck

If oncheck encounters a row/table is locked it immeditely returns error: ERROR: Could not obtain lock for <database>:<user>.<table> It would be useful to have an option for user to select lock wait time for example: oncheck -cDI ...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

V7 - Truncate VARCHAR columns larger than 32592 allowing loads/replication

V5 allowed loads/replication of tables having a VARCHAR column larger than 32592. V7 does not. Our company has several tables that are loaded/replicated to the V5 appliance that now cannot be. The tables can not be changed because they are part of...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered

QMF for Workstation or QMF for Websphere to have inline edit rows/column values and delete row values RFE 120690

In DataQuant a user can run a query against a table and then delete/change a row/column inline. In QMF a user needs to use the Table Editor tool to edit any values and the table editor does not allow for any predicts or data reordering functionali...
over 7 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Issue with data purging : Wastage of vertica license

As discussed in the PMR, due to bad design of data purging in PA 9, there are two issues 1. Wastage of vertica license i.e. at times data is retained in the DB even beyond data retention period defined in SYS_tables_to_parition. 2. PA admin has no...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Update Business Terms in Catalog

If a business term name is updated, the catalog asset linked to the original business term should also reflect the new name. Ex: first draft business term (published): Medical Record Number, linked to 6 data assets in the Default catalog. second d...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Delivered

Audit History Dashboard drill-down to History details

When changes are made on the item, changes by attribute with old value and new value are available on single idem edit in tab Audit history in table History details. When looking at the Audit History Dashboard, there are columns for e.g. added and...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Delivered