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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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API to retrieve selected parents in OpenPages Trigger Framework

When user tries to create a new object from the UI using Add New Wizard, the user can choose both the primary and secondary parents. If there is a requirement to validate the type of parent and number of parents being chosen before creating the ob...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

I/O required for RI check against the parent table when inserts done on the child table.

We have noticed that there is a high number of get pages on the parents indexes when doing an INSERT of a child row. Here are the details of our situation: The parent table has a partitioned primary key index with 132 partitions. The...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

JSON File Read for OPL

Many Industries have started using JSON file as a primary data format. However OPL Cplex yet does not provide a direct accessibility to JSON file. People who use doCplexCloud have the accessibility. But other people, who do not use doCplexCloud, c...
about 7 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow values > 100 for MAX_LOG

MAX_LOG specifies if there is a limit to the percentage of the primary log space that a transaction can consume, and what that limit is.The range of the parameter is 0-100 percent of the primary log space. However, there are cases when a value >...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Pacemaker to be able to start instance on new Standby post network isolation incident

Hi IBM, we had a network isolation between between Primary and Standby database servers for 5 minutes. Pacemaker promoted Principal Standby DB to be primary and killed the process on old Primary DB. Network isolation has passed but Pacemaker didn'...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration