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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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Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode

Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode. Currently, we are obliged to restore from the backup first and after to rollforward so that the load backup were used. It makes sense for a load in insert mode, but for a load in replace mode, it i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2AA Customer Consumable Interface for Memory Monitoring

In DB2AA V4 all of the paired subsystems to a single Accelerator are sharing a common apply agent memory structure of 8 GB. This is a fixed size. As customers add more subsystems to this single accelerator with replication (CDC) enabled, there is ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - SSM rackware scheduling

Ability to make SSM “rack aware” like in map-reduce and preference to schedule workload on local nodes
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Require dynamic shared library for libsoamapi.a

Is there a dynamic linked .so for libsoamapi.a? CVA group needs to use it to build their own self-contained dynamic library for their java apps to load…
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

SQL performance is bad after V10 migrate.

Our customer migrated DB2 V10(NFM) from V8(NFM).In particular query,processing time took one minute in the case of DB2 V8,but DB2 V10 increased to 11 minutes. The VIEW has been used by the customer LEFT OUTER JOIN 50 times near internally.As a res...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SHOW VARY RESULTS WITH BATCHEDREAD_INDEX

support team reply this is work as Informix design, but from customer view, they cannot accept. CIB want IBM to review this issue, hope IBM can change the design.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix Multi Instance on zVM

SYSTEM: Informix on zLinux on ZVM 6.1 zLinux 11.2Action: Multi Instance (Residency) performance issues Informix Enterprise server is used for our Electronic Court system at the State of Mississippi. In order to save cost on system resources we dec...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

"Index on expression" should be used more

By implementing an "index on expression", a DBA has the ability to tune many queries that are written poorly without changing the query. This is very useful and allows a DBA to rapidly respond to a performance problem. However, there are some time...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

ODBC driver support for HTML datatype

Extension to the ODBC driver to have support for extended data types such as HTML. This issue is with all platforms and all CSDK versions. However, for your reference, we have tried this on below CSDK and IDS version.Database Version:Informix Vers...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

[Diagnostic and Debug-ability] - Logs - Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data (large project)

Improve logs with more connection information to correlate data between log filesa. ssm to simb. vemkd to pemc. master lim to slave limsd. ego services to vemkd and egosce. sessionid to taskid and the execution hosts of the tasks
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration