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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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112 VOTE

Backup from RSS or HDR Secondaries using ontape, onunload, onbar, dbexport

In HDR enviroments, being able to backup or export databases from and HDR, HDR read-only, or an RSS secondary server is critical. Programs like ontape, onunload, dbexport, and onbar generate locks on tables during backups and data-exports. This cr...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered
108 VOTE

Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Omegamon Db2 -DB2 Thread History

Hello, DB2 Thread History - Can not see Transaction Name and Accounting String in detail We can see the transaction name and accounting string value partly in the thread history screen. However when we go into detail, we can not see transaction na...
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

the enhancement to the e3270 UI - Adding the ability to deal with static SQL

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of daily transactions with statically compiled COBOL-CICS-DB2 routines. Even during night time it has a high BATCH load of statically scheduled and compiled COBOL-DB2 routines. The customer's need is ...
almost 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

SQL interface to obtain the temporary space usage (tables, hash, sorts...)

A DBA and possibly a programmer needs an easy way to monitor who is responsible for the temporary space usage.Currently it's possible a user may be consuming a lot of temporary space and impacting other sessions, without the DBA being able to quic...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Add Db2 Version to OMEG Db2 entry panel KDPSTRTI

We operate Db2 subsystems in different Db2 versionsTo have an overview on which Db2 Version level a Db2 subsystem is, we would like to see this in Panel KDPSTRTI (displaycols, sortcols and filtercols).
over 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 3 Delivered

Update PDF manuals for v14.10.<latest> and keep in sync

The PDF manuals have not been updated since v12.10.FC7!
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Page limitation for single fragment, to avoid stop the business and recreate the table .

Remove or enlarge the 16,775,134 page limitation per fragment.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

255 rows/page limit should be addressed

Informix has a rows/page limit of 255 rows/page. Perhaps this was not a problem originally but over time we have seen new features: larger page sizes (up to 16 kB against 2 kB or 4 kB previously, dependent on operating system). compression option....
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

DB2 trace facility in Enhanced 3270ui

Can you enable DB2 trace facility in Omegamon Enhanced 3270ui like the Omegamon classic APPLICATION TRACE FACILITY.
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered