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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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Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replication Tasks (CDC) should be ZIIP offloadable

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a product which off loads workload from z/OS. All Task used for loading data, replicating updates, managing the IDAA box is new workload and should be cost efficient according to Mainframe. This means, that ev...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 zOS LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE - provide # of rows processed

Enhancement request: When LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility abended, DB2 should provide the number of input records processed. Justification: If a LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility abended and then restarted successfully, the utility will skip the processed...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Studio cannot display the TS data

Please see the PMR 72245,003,756
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

LOAD RESUME YES LOG NO support while loading to accelerator

We are using DB2 v10,z/OS v1.13,IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator v4.1 in our environment for both our test and production DW environments. In our DW systems LOAD RESUME YES LOG NO is used for loading some of our tables. In IDAA, in a condition like t...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use mapped user rather than UID in SQLTRACE data

When getting ready to use mapped users, we have found that SQLTRACE does not distinguish the externally named users, but rather uses the local systerm's mapped user UID. This is a security and usability issue. From the usability standpoint, there ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Create a cdr client log that logs cdr command start and exit status

Cisco currently uses the CDR_FEATURES LOGCOMMANDS feature and redirects CDR client stderr and stdout to their application log file. The problem is when a CDR command fails due to a client side error, the server message log does not have any indica...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DSN_PROFILE_TABLE should work corrid/Jobname with IDAA

We like to exclude selectively jobs from runing on the IDAA via DSN_PROFILE_TABLE. Right now you can use AUTHID, PLANNAME, COLLID, PKGNAME, LOCATION but not CORRID (jobname). In our data warehouse application we have many thousend of jobs running ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration