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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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Asynchronous activation

Design a new db2 database configuration variable to put the database available very quickly following an ACTIVATE command. As far as I understand, the database activation can last a long time due to the control of the tablespaces. It will be inter...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Compatibility mode / new function mode

Enable compatibility mode and new function mode like DB2 z/OS. The compatibility mode will allow to use the binaries of a new db2 version without using the new features. The new function mode will allow to use the binaries of a new db2 version and...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Enable consistent export - implement MVCC

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over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

db2move copy option for partitioned tablespaces

Please implement tablespace map for db2move copy option for partitioned tables, the above pmr has more details on the issue. db2move accepts a tablespace map, but if the souce database has a partitioned table it just fails with a syntax error when...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Partitioned Indices Order Preservation and Performance

GTECH is in the lottery and gaming business. They use DB2 as a competitive advantage in their offering. They are an IBM SW Reseller. They are always looking at new ways to leverage DB2, DB2 Blu, DB2 Merge/Backup,IBM Replication IIDR, to gain compe...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

New DSNACCOX tablespace reorg threshold

Stored procedure DSNACCOX has thresholds for tablespace unclustered inserts (RRTUnclustInsPct) and page splits from updates (RRTIndRefLimit). These both cause fragmentation. However, there is no threshold for the sum of these two, even though many...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase 32767 limit for "-528 Maximum output rowsize max-size exceeded."

Be more modern with your limits.PostgreSQL does not have such a low limit.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

online alter fragment

make it possible to run alter fragment online
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reorg on criteria

Add new option to allow the reorg utility to discard / keep rows during the reorganization
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Intermediate commit in singleton delete / insert / update

Add a new WITH clause to store the commit interval which will triggers intermediate commits in the mass delete / insert / update.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration