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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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DR4A V1.2 Sequence not replicated

After insert on capture side on table with autonumber column, data is inserted, but sequence is not replicated on apply side. You can follow the following steps to recreate the scenario. CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE "TSD_DBA_TEST" IN DATABASE PARTIT...

backup network connection fault does not cause appliance to fail during startup when primary connection available.

Diagnostic entries in the application log should indicate when a network connection has failed or when the appliance fails to start due to a network connection that indicates which failed. You should not have to send in a dump to discover local ne...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Four steps of writing a literature review

1. Preparation The first step involves aligning yourself with your topic so that you gain a more comprehensive picture of the area of study. This includes making a list of key terms that will serve as the basis for the next step. Read a recent pub...
almost 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI - Add New – Parents, not obvious which would be primary unless user explicitly selects primary

In Standard UI – the Primary Parent chosen is displayed. However in the TFUI – if user doesn’t explicitly select a primary, the primary indicator is not shown and therefore the user would not know which parent is going to be primary. Primary is im...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

DR repair index - Not applicable to RSS servers

We have an index corrupted as a result of applying a new fragmentation strategy. The index is fine on the primary but corrupted on both HDR and two RSS servers. The only way of fixing this index is to rebuild the index online which will take a hou...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allowing additional HADR standbys to receive logs from the first standby

In current implementation of HADR, all standbys receive logs from the primary. The shipping of logs to the additional standbys adds overhead on the primary database. This overhead can be avoided if we can allow the additional standby(s) to communi...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

create a foreign key allowing one to one tables relationships

Our Primary Key and Foreign key constraints always have allowed creaing and ensuring '1 to many' table relationships. After researching, there is no direct way to implement such a case with Informix. The only safe way is to create a primary key on...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 RFE for tablespaces objects replication

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 (IBM Db2 Replication for Continuous Avalability) lacks replication of CREATE, ALTER, DROP and other statements like authorise and revoke for tablespace objects. When using IIAS console to define table replication whi...

Automatic Cluster Failback feature

We think Informix Cluster should have an automatically failback feature, that could physically priorize our servers (suggesting always that the primary node is in a site, for example).It would be just the same as using a Connection Manager, plus t...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration