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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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"Index on expression" should be used more

By implementing an "index on expression", a DBA has the ability to tune many queries that are written poorly without changing the query. This is very useful and allows a DBA to rapidly respond to a performance problem. However, there are some time...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

ODBC driver support for HTML datatype

Extension to the ODBC driver to have support for extended data types such as HTML. This issue is with all platforms and all CSDK versions. However, for your reference, we have tried this on below CSDK and IDS version.Database Version:Informix Vers...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

[Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data (large project)

Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data between log filesa. ssm to simb. vemkd to pemc. master lim to slave limsd. ego services to vemkd and egosce. sessionid to taskid and the execution hosts of the tasks
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Auth to EXCHANGE CLONE Tables

This is very similar to an RFE that i submitted for MQTs...ID : 39165'Auth to Refresh Table for MQT'Under Consideration We have the same situation for CLONE Tables. The developers wish to run the EXCHANGE using Dynamic SQL, but the RACF ID that ru...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Audit - Log OS User name in EGO Service Controller audit log

EGO Service Controller Audit logs the EGO user and not the OS account issuing egosh command. Additionally, the EGO user is incorrectly logged when the same OS user logs in on different terminals.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Matrix - Cloudera lastest version integration (CDH5.0)

SDMCC has ordered 70 PowerLinux box plus Symphony, GPFS to run big data analytics application, the application was developped at CDH5.0 (MRv2). Symphony MR to integrate with CDH can bring better performance, reliablity to SDMCC.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

Allow CTEs reuse resultset with in the same query

Currently a CTE is always being resolved by going back to disk. For example, if the same CTE is reused with in the same query, for each time it is used, it is reading from the disk and processing the entire query. So if it is used 5 times with in ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Security - Kerberos - Support Kerberos Library outside of default install location

Kerberos libraries are installed in a non starndard location (outside of /lib and /lib64). Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps except with VEMKD and PEM, which fail to start.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

Provide Accelerator systems administrator ability to see & set Incremental Update RSG controls

With Incremental Update now being in it's own resource sharing group (V4), the resource management controls (visible to the systems admin) is ambiguous and not flexible. 1) It does not include the relative percentage impact of the new IU resource ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Integration Requirement] SOAM - OpenR - Support recursive scheduling with OpenR

Provide the mechanism for Parent Child or recursive scheduling in the openR integeration with Symphony.
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration