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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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CDC zOS Support Index with Identity Columns

Last week, during our testing of table replication with identity columns, it was discovered that CDC on zOS was unable to utilize primary indexes containing identity columns for replication. Since many tables utilize the identity column as the pri...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
11 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

SSM restart by SD

Use case: we should ask SD try to restart SSM should it detect non-responsive SSM after a certain time of period (or after tried a number of times). Not only after detecting SSM's PID is gone or the underlying network connection is broken. The len...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Add readahead per sessions/sql counters.

Add per session/SQLTrace per sql readaheads triggered counters.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Official support for IDS on Alma Linux

Following the recent change in status of Centos, some customers may wish to convert their Informix servers to Alma Linux soon. This will be for both IDS 12.10 and 14.10. Can IBM/HCL certify this platform.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

FastMap: Calculated fields should be treated as Read-only and NOT be allowed to be updated via FastMap

Using FastMap it is possible to update a field even if a calculation applies to that field: we need this behavior to be inhibited (Rif. Case TS012470294)
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 5 Delivered

Parameter to suppress the generate of Grant Statements in Db2 Cloning Tool

When we clone tablespaces from a production to a test Db2 system we would like to suppress all authorizations on the target objects (e.g. tables, views), because users don't possess the same privileges in these two environments. At this time cloni...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Shutdown for InformixHQ

InformixHQ-Server lacks a possibility for shutdown. The admin has to issue a kill command from the command line with the proper (root) access. This is not at all satisfying. InformixHQ-agents can be stopped by pressing a button - as long as th...
over 5 years ago in Informix 2 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to secured connections (SSL, AT-TLS)

On our approach to convert all tcp/ip based connections to Db2 for z/OS to secured/protected ones (SSL,AT-TLS), we are missing a way to measure our progress here. The only way to get information about the portion of secured connections is (as far ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Capture cost and path information for New SQL to help DBAs determine if there might be an access problem

There is a new release of application code. Currently SQL/PA does a COMPARE of current and previous access paths. There is a hole for NEW SQL that takes a bad access path. DBAs need to know if this is occurring.
over 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered