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Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Customization of Export .csv report from Manta.

We have a requirement in our organization to customize the export of Manta lineage data. Specifically, we need to tailor the reports to reflect the database, schema, table and view levels. This customization should align with the templates provide...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Work identification based on number of subsections in a statement.

Work identification can currently be done based on Estimated cost, Estimated cardinality, Estimated data accessed. Ref: "Work identification by type, cost, or data accessed with work classes - IBM Documentation" This allows for identification of c...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Increase supported ADMIN_MODE_USERS by moving list from onconfig to table

Parameter ADMIN_MODE_USERS handy during migrations. the ability to make the database available for a subset of users is great for post migration validation. However the length of the field (127 bytes) is a limitation that ends up being somewhat mi...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Optim TDM 11.7 for DB2 on z/OS - Overrides for both, SRCCID and DESTCID in Table Maps

Hello IBM, We use Optim TDM extensively for setting up Test Data by extracting from Live and inserting into different UAT environments. Instead of generating the jobs each time a request comes, we have a set of batch jobs that are run when a reque...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Evolved dictionary

Affected Product: Db2WoC Evolved dictionary - dictionaries evolve automatically to better quality and data be recompressed without user intervention. GEICO and some other customers like Bank of America (BofA) have been requesting this feature for ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Building better quality dictionaries while doing CTAS in Warehouse SaaS / CP4D SaaS

Product affected: Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Feature affected : CTAS is a Db2 statement - CREATE TABLE AS functionality (CTA) Overview GEICO sees very bad compression as compared to Netezza. Its been observed that currently CTAS uses only the first pa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration