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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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optimiser to consider workfile size to determine to use a sort operation

Hi, were coping with a -904 00C90084 or 00C90085 DSNDB07 during a simple left outer join. Apparently the optimiser is not smart enough to determine wether or not to use a sort operation because his lack of knowledge about the sort work file alloca...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Case TS000932532 - Load should be able to bypass a GENERATED-ALWAYS-from-variable column

ProblemA load on a table containing a certain type of GENERATED ALWAYS column fails with the very odd message "Unexpected load gencol section".Research pointed out that LOAD cannot handle in any way a GENERATED ALWAYS column getting its informatio...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Parameter support when creating standalone database connection assets

When creating a Database connection I would like to use parameters for the connection details. This is currently possible when using flow connection in job but we have a hundreds of job that are allready using existing connection created through i...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Additional logging on the private subsets

We are using Planning Analytics, in one of the recent issue we have seen private subsets are taking longer time to load then usual. When we check the logs they were insufficient to tell that what is causing the delay. So we are suggesting that the...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module

Report Authoring Add frameworkmanager package and data module together as source
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multithreaded Refresh for iSeries

Currently when a refresh occurs in iSeries to DS_FF or any other DB it uses the native method to do the refresh with single threaded - This can be improved by using the JDBC method where they should be able to use multithreaded. In the iSeries Cur...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Not under consideration

Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE is an easy way to save lock list and lock acquire for tables that just get accessed by a single application at a given time.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration