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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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ADM - PANELID ADB1S - DROP at COMMAND line does not provide process to DROP RESTRICT ON DROP

Dropping at the command line does not allow the capability to have DROP ON RESTRICT ALTERS be generated. When entering DROP in the SELECT field, panels are displayed to accomplish this. This should also be done for DROP at the command line. This s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance dbschema to generate SQL for sysuser entries

The sysadmin users is used to store: PAM trusted users (sysauth) trusted contexts (systcxusers, systcxattributes, systrustedcontext) local users (syssurrogates, sysusermap) Dbschema should be extended to allow generated DDL for: trusted...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Increase the length of Informix usernames

Within Informix the username is defined as char(32). The Informix feature "Informix trusted context" enable Informix to be used with Federated Authentication, in such cases the impersonated user is identified using an email address. In view of thi...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

job resource usage correction

My developers always submit distributed jobs to the cluster, when their jobs ends with OOM error in one of the nodes, bjobs or bacct commands find that the job's memory usage is incorrect. For example , in server's '/var/log/message' we can see th...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Future consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Add a popup info property to Planning Analytics Workspace buttons.

Add a popup info property to Planning Analytics Workspace buttons as for Text boxes.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Questionnaire Template Disclaimer and Logo customization

In 8.3 version of OpenPages, the Questionnaire Template Disclaimer text and logo are customizable and can be configured. But the fact that logo & disclaimer are shared across all templates in the system, defeats the entire purpose of the custo...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Subscription maintenance in flight as add table, table error, set full refresh flag and etc.

We are testing CDC for DB2 z/OS as mainly producer of data replication to another CDC engines as kafka and oracle, so to much cdc admin issues is happening here, for example: when just one table of subs receives a error the entire subscription is ...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Provide pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks of Db2 parameters and highlight any deltas

It is currently a best practice that we recommend customers do pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks manually. The request is that this should be performed automatically as part of the Db2 upgrade script itself. Comparing before and after parame...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration