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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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Implicit cast of decimal/exp notation format comparator to valid decimal value when DSNHDECM DECIMAL=COMMA

When the subsystem decimal point is a period, the following comparisons are treated as valid: WHERE = dddd.ddWHERE = 0.ddddddEnn When the subsystem decimal point is a comma, comparisons in dynamic SQL of the form: WHERE = dddd.ddWHERE = dddd,ddWHE...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

MapReduce - Platform Symphony M/R to support Object Store (QA Project)

Many customers are looking for an lower cost storage options(similar to Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift) on Amazon cloud or Softlayer cloud and able to run analytic on it. Current option for storage that are available to IBM Platform Symphony Cloud s...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Native SQL Stored Procedure Call Statement Does Not Support Using A Host Variable For The Procedure Name

For DB2 V10 and V11. The CALL SQL statement inside a NSP only supports:CALL procedure-name it does not support: CALL host-variable like the CALL SQL statement outside a NSP does. DB2 needs to be changed so that the CALL SQL statement inside a NSP ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

make db2.o and db2_64.o (odbc usage) part of the distribution and updates/upgrades

The information center documents how to extract shr.o of shr_64.o and move it to db2.o or db2_64.o. 'http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.apdv.cli.doc/doc/t0010406.html?cp=SSEPGG_10.5.0%2F4-0-1-1-4-2 .luw.apd...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - Configuration - XSD file dependenices require internet access

running the following command requires internet access:wsdl2java -uri EGO_registration_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri EGO_users_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri Soam.wsdl We don't want any dependencies outside of FreddieMac, so all XSD files(including the depen...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Not under consideration

add option to bypass disk space check for the installer ids_install

The installer needs an option to bypass the file space check.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration