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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Config option to raise an SQL error on inserting a too long string value

Inserting of any string value should not result with a silent automatic truncation of a given value and with an OK transaction result status. Exactly this is the default DBMS behaviour for non-ANSI databases.One solution for this could be the intr...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Rollback changes to both accelerators if failure occurs loading multiple accels in one load statement

We have a situation where it is important to keep the data in synch on both accelerators, so we use one statement to load both accelerators. Real case: The data is loaded from OPERLOG logstream to shadow table every 15 minutes on two IDAA accelera...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace PPT Download Zoom Percentage Increase

After downloading dashboard in Planning Analytics Workspace, Zoom Percentage of the slide should be 100 by default. Currently is is showing as 58%. First slide is having the Header name of the dashboard, there should be an option not to get this s...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying TOCOPY on a RECOVER

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "TOCOPY" in the "list-options-spec" section of the "RECOVER" page.3) Receive following error when attempting to use a ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Needs more information

SQL skeleton for SQLTrace

SQL skelecton for SQLTrace Most of the customers' product system have to run almost 1000 transactions per seconds, it means there are about 86M transactions per day. so there will be to many SQLs would be traced by current SQL trace.so customer ca...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration