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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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Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic bad pages' repair on Primary DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Primary database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be easily based on the good copy of the pag...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER the database into the Alternate location.

We have a lot of cases when we need to RECOVER the database to the alternate location/paths. The RECOVER command doesn't support the relocation of the database.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode

Consider local slots and exported slots together for Lease Mode
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Resource Shortage Notification

Issue: In CPD v2.5, if the cluster don't have enough resource for user to provision DB2 Warehouse or Streams instance, CPD won't inform user the resource is shortage. The DB2W instance will keep provisioning and never end. The streams instance sta...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Allow for FTM Console to point to a read on standby instance of database

We've seen in the past that operators running "bad" queries on the FTM console (say, searching for all transmissions, loading the raw data of a 100 MB file, etc) can cause performance issues for live transactions. We would like to be able to point...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Purescale - Event Monitor for Locking - Include member information

In Purescale environment, with currently commited enabled and CS isolation query, we can find situations where a "select" receives a locktimeout depending on which member the connection comes. But, event monitor for locking doesn't include this in...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Show filter name in Cognos Workspace Advanved under Filters -> Edit Filters...

Enhancement of the usability of filters in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced when using pre-defined filters of an Cognos package.When using pre-defined filters in Cognos Workspace Advanced the name of the filter should be displayed under Filters ->...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid manual update of Controller FAP Cube after changing default settings

Every time someone logs on to cognos controller, and changes his default settings (default actuality and period), the Controller FAP Cube needs an update. This is alot. If I need to log on to the GUI in order to maintain this, this will take a lot...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration