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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch

Add a unique return code to the oninit command if it time out when using the -w switch
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add constraint name to ATS/RIS files when they are generated due to foreign key constraint issues

Add constraint name to ATS/RIS files when they are generated due to foreign key constraint issues
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automatic update statistics triggered after n sequential scans

Background/automatic "update statistics low" for tables after nth sequential scan
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock table (or database) in exclusive mode does not work as expected in HDR

If one attempts to update a table with many rows in an HDR environment with updateable secondary code like this does not work (if you are on the primary):begin work; lock table mytab in exclusive mode; update mytab set col1="xxx" where 1=1; commit...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC

The feature request has been submitted earlier. Re-submitted the request again via RFE tool to track on the status. Can you please provide an update. CQ# idsdb00249320 RTC# 23793 Request to provide support for DELIMIDENT in CDC Need support for do...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IDAA UDF Support for Experian Opportunity

System: IDAAActor: Financial Services Client IDAA is a product that is used to accelerate complex queries on DB2 z/OS without any change to the underlying infrastructure and applications and is fully transparent to applications that submit queries...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit of 100 ckpts entries in BSDS

BACKOUT YES specifies the recovery of objects to a prior point in time by a log-only backout. No image copy is restored, it uses the log to backout changes made since the log point that is specified in the TOLOGPOINT or TORBA options. So we sugges...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display severity code in DSNUxxxxI message

DB2 only provides highest return code at then end of job, often we need to review the output of the reorg jobs to find out abnormal activities. Is it possible to display the seveirty code along with the current text for each DSNUxxxxI message ? Th...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need an onmode option to terminate orphaned, tightly coupled global transactions. Onmode -Z does not address this case.

If a Java application that uses tightly coupled global transactions (such as from Geronimo / WebSphere app servers) abnormally terminates, it may leave the global transaction orphaned on the Informix database server. In this case, an onstat -G wil...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration