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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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Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Make DVM JDBC driver publicly available via Maven-like repository

Currently, in order to make the latest JDBC driver available to our developers, we download the jar file from Fix Central, and then make a new entry in our company repository. Ideally, we would like our company repository to point to an IBM/Rocket...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Issue rating sort order

While displaying the Issues list, ascending and descending orders on column [Affiliate Rating] or [Corporate Rating] uses the alphabetical order of ratings, rather than their importance. Proper order for ascending order shall be: Not applicable &g...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

DVM Studio parser needs 64-bit support

Mac users are limited to installing the DVM plugin on their workstations. MacOS 10.14 is the last version that supports the current 32-bit application. The plugin will not install on an OS beyond 10.14.
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Ability to stop print messages from python package ibm_watson_machine_learning

When using ibm_watson_machine_learning package, it prints messages in console after any wml command, like token preparation, space initialization, job deployment etc. Can we have an option where we could disable these print meassages?
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration