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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Bufferpool Purge without database deactivation

Ability to purge the bufferpools (perhaps specified by bufferpool name) without deactivating the entire database. While dirty pages can be flushed from bufferpools with the flush bufferpools command, the bufferpools cannot be entirely purged witho...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Search Attributes/Columns in Workspace Advanced

We utilize Cognos Workspace Advance for Adhoc reporting needs. Often the number of attributes or columns in the Dimensions or Query Subjects are quite high, which makes it difficult for users to lookup the right attribute/column. We would like to ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD CHUNK' OPERATION SHOULD RETURN WARNING THAT LEVEL 0 ARCHIVE NEEDS TO BE DONE

An 'add dbspace' operation returns the following warning upon completion: ** WARNING ** A level 0 archive of Root DBSpace will need to be done. An 'add chunk' operation just returns 'chunk successfully added'. An 'add chunk' operation should also ...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Connection Manager Support for all Possible connection types (DRDA/SQLI/Mongo API/REST)

Connection manager needs to connect and function with all of the informix data not just the DRDA and SQL data portions.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade without outage in HDR environment

Upgrading without an outage in an HDR environment is a big deal when rolling out upgrades in the HDR environment. With the conversion from 12.10.FC4 to 12.10.FC5 we will have a failover and thats it! Thats a HUGE win for the product but I need thi...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Document the client_prdid for each Fix Pack release of db2jcc.jar and db2jcc4.jar drivers

When Java applications connect to DB2 via the JDBC Type 4 JCC driver, the only version-specific identifier visible from the DB2 server (via an application snapshot) is the client product ID of the driver, such as JCC03000. This value is currently ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration