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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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Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

alter package explain no / yes

Allow to change the explain option of a package using alter package or rebind package
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Hibernate dialect / optimize for 1 rows

Allow / work with the hibernate community to add the clause optimize for 1 rows in the hibernate db2 dialect.
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] fair rebalancing among consumers with equal priority when losing cores later

In our production cluster, at the very beginning, we configured all the resource quota when all the hosts/slots are available, so every app can get its own quota to run workload smoothly. As the time goes on, it's very normal that some hosts could...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 4 Not under consideration

tasks pending or low number of running task with idle free slots wasted when using dynamic service

when using dynamic service feature, if one SI triggered block host action, all the slots on the same host will be in releasing state, and ssm can not get slot replacement promptly.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

To reuse the original started SI if it's serving for the next task from other session, using the same servic type

When using proportional scheduling policy, we are seeing frequent resuffuling of slots amont sessions with the same service type, and SIs are being restarted frequently.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

Regulation of the transport objects by data source per pureScale cluster within the JVM.

This requirement was raised in the old IBM requirement system in 2011. The requirement id was R2PRO00006740. The connection from JVM(WebSphere) connection pool- JCC driver - Global transport pool into the agent of UDB pure scale. The requirement i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

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