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CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is now v13. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

GOC should have the intelligence to know when to generate a rebind not using option (A, M, N) on the panel which causes unnecessary rebinds generated

Rebinds should be generated when needed not by using option (A, M, N) . The help panels and user guide have been updated to clarify option "A" means "All relevant. Run the rebind on all packages that reference any of the modified objects." Option ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

would be great in the filter of the grid view has as an option the Worflow information filterable

as today you can add as part of the view some "Workflow information" but in the moment to make a filter in the grid view is not able that option, would be great have that option because the end user can make a filters based on the stage of the wor...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Discovery's SDU (powerpoint note column)

Powerpoint slides have a note field below the slide. It contains important texts.I want to get the text of the note field with SDU. When I tested it, I couldn't get the text in the note field. I'd like to get the text in the note field with SDU
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add custom Kafka property to CDC to produce additional monitoring trails

We discovered that the producer instance for CDC is not being created inside the custom Kcop java class. It seems to be created internally by the application. However, this leaves us unable to add additional behaviors for CDC as a producer to Kafk...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Separate mandator/user privileges for Rule Generation and Simulation

Simulation and Generation are tied together, if you can access one you get the other. Would like these unlinked.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

informix HQ

Current version of Informix HQ is not able to trap and sent alert for engine in block state.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration