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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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Allow record count limit for reference tables

We only do Archive for decommission. We like to test Optim against each of the tables to ensure we will not have any surprises when we run the full archive. It is very disappointing to run an archive and have it fail several hours into the process...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Batch or Multi Delete of Archive Requests and Access Definitions

Currently we have a method to test Optim archive against the tables that we are going to archive. To do this against Sql server, we have to take the Access definition and archive request and generate one per table. This causes a large number of it...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Add to DB2 stage a z/os read method using DB2HPU utility

We currently want to improve data extraction process from DB2 z/OS database performance.It would be nice to call UNLOAD utility or DB2HPU using DB2 Connector Stage instead of using SQL queries.As the bulk load method exists to bulk load data to z/...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Security

· Restrict custom host name (shared with host) · Restrict custom domain name (shared with host) · Disable container network namespace (shared with host) · Use of valid, user owned UID/GIDs (UID namespace is shared with host) · Must not attemp...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enahnce db2pd -dbptnmem command for clarity

In command db2pd -dbptnmem result Real Memory on the system is not displayed, and Memory Limit is meant to represent Instance Memory. Please enhance the command as follows for clarity: 1 - the Real Memory on the system should also be displayed in ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

TS Rolling Window Containers dropping dormant window should be similar to DETACH FRAGMENT

When a dormant fragment is removed the data is gone for good, unless you manually unload to a new table or flat file. On large TS this is very time and disk restrictive. It is also hard to coordinate on embedded systems
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Back up the Secure Gateway from Planning Analytics Administrator

In a recent PA SaaS environment the Secure Gateway and associated Data sources disappeared from Planning Analytics Administrator. The Secure Gateway persisted as Cloud connections continued to render back to the source data bases. It would be bene...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit the number of child objects association in a Grid

For a business need, we need to associate only one child object (not primary), so it should be limited to only one child association in a Grid. In 8.2.0.3, when I use Multi Select as false, it allow to add (associate) one child at time, but you ca...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

A more efficient way for CDC to process subscriptions which are behind in the Db2 logs

This is related to the CDC Db2 z/OS engine. The situation is multiple subscriptions that are behind, for example due to the subscriptions being stopped for several hours for technical reasons. We recently had 3 subscriptions that went down for mor...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Ability to filter on reporting fragment fields

Users have reporting fragment fields and would like the ability to build filters using these fields. It's understood that this is complex and likely not to happen since the value of reporting fragment fields do not have a predictable format and I ...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration