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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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CDA generate DDL to use binary data types

In customer's IMS application, PL / I Bit items are often used. In current CCDC, Bit items can be replicated as forbit data, but DDL sentence generation by CDA is not supported and it is skipped. Therefore, it is necessary to define a column manua...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

Enabling DAE to supress flood of duplicate Db2 dumps in all situations

Reoccuring Db2 dumps should be supressed by DAE. In certain situations DAE is not able to supress dumps, which are part of a flood of Db2 dumps. This was observed in the second level of recovery from a Db2 abend. In our case the Db2 recovery routi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

ALA apply result in sqlcode -253 or -254, but does not show the original sqlcode which caused the error.

description of pain point: see attachment workaround: turn MRI off//RUN EXEC PGM=ALA@FSP,REGION=0M, // PARM='ssid MRIOFF'
over 3 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Q Replication to support MRI on DB2 for LUW

Currently MRI (Multiple Row Insert) function is said to be supported on DB2 for LUW after 10.5.0.7, but actually NOT. Without this function, QREP may not meet the performance requirements of some applications , such as PBoC TIPS2. https://www.ibm....
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Compatibility to MySQL SQL Syntax - Omit unnecessary FROM Clause

MySQL provides some SQL syntax features which Informix does not provide. One example the customer mentioned was the possibility to omit the FROM clause: SELECT 4+5 ; Using Informix a from clause is necessary: SELECT 4+5 from sysmaster:sysdual;
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

IIDR heartbeat signal between Capture server and Apply server

If target server side system which Apply server works goes down by any errors, source server side system which Capture server works is not aware of a failure of another side.
almost 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Delivered

BQ connector (target) to use Gzip Compress option

To improve performance for BQ connector ( Target) . Google had recommended to Gzip the files while loading to GCS and then merge the data to BQ table .
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

http proxy server capability for LSF resource connector

Configuration of the resource connector to use a company owned proxy server to route http requests from local HPC LSF cluster resource connector to AWS.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

AT-TLS support for IDAA

We would like to use SSL/TLS for encrypting data transfers between the Mainframe and the IDAA appliance. IPsec is not currently an option for us due to it's requirement of IKEDv2 and NSSD. It would be costly for us to implement this solution.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Fix systemd unit file created by hostsetup to allow MPI jobs to use RDMA

In response to RFE #89685, requesting the creation and use of a systemd unit file, the fix 432732. The fix modified hostsetup to create the unit file, below, and register the lsfd service. [Unit]Description=IBM Spectrum LSFAfter=network.target nfs...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered