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Performance improvement for getPrimaryKeys() query for Snowflake target (Flexrep)

When the IIDR Target instance for Snowflake gets restarted, it runs the below query on Snowflake to get information about the primary keys for the tables. The query is fired for each table in the subscription. (we have 435 tables in the subscripti...
about 10 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Request block level Informix cluster replication

Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
11 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

we would like to raise a feature request for Informix to generate alerts or log messages in the online message log whenever index corruption is detected, as such events are currently not notified or recorded. on Informix secondary servers

In an Informix cluster environment, when the secondary server becomes the primary, any existing corruption on the secondary can be carried over without any notification. This can result in the corruption impacting all DML operations on the new pri...
27 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

German language support

All documents and data on-site is in German. German is the primary business language.
3 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

New API operation for fraud marking a record in the whole cluster

The existing markFraud API operation receives as an input a URID that is specific of the API instance that will process this operation. This creates a possible information gap if the API instance that will process this operation is different from ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Connection Manager should check if a secondary server is in sync before allowing connections to that server

When you have a primary and a secondary both server are in sync. But if you need to stop one of them for maintenaince reasons then it becomes out of sync. When you start it again the server might be so many log ahead and need to sync but the serve...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted