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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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Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

No database name in "Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index"

There is not enough information in the following message that can be found in online.log: 07/19/18 02:25:27 Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index informix.ix_transacaoguia_goperadora due t...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

enable DB2 table with status AREO for CDC in IDAA

Rabobank would like to have an enhancement that allows for CDC replication to able to be enabled or re-enabled with a table in AREO status in DB2. We understand that since PTF Level 4 we can re-enable a previously enabled table for replication, ev...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

DVM Inserts into SQL DateTime2 column

Inserts into Datetime2 datatype column is not supported via DVM. APAR number PH34676 has been opened for this. Opening this AHa icket to track APAR.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

UNIQUE INDEXES over BIGINT column can't be compressed

unique indexes over id columns (bigint) are not compressed whereas the same unique index over decimal column gets compressedindex compression for unique indexes is urgently needed to reduce disk and memory footprint
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration