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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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Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Certify informix 12.10 on RHEL8

NEWS FLASH - the website now shows that 12.10.FC15 is certified on RHEL 8. This should be marked as completed. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/informix-server-system-requirements We need to stay with Informix 12 so that our compiled 4GL will con...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Session Time out Pop up

We need timeout popup as a warning message that session is about to expire. This will help users in saving time and avoid losing any unsaved changes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Speed option for table repack

Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Improve QWT to suggest missing join predicates when not involved in declarative RI

Need to improve the tool to advise against missing lead index columns in a join. More detail in additional detail section.
10 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Future consideration

UX Improvements on Master Data Explorer UI

It will further support our business end users of MDM in navigating the Master Data Explorer. Furthermore, it will improve ALL end-users experience when performing advanced searches. Here are the specific improvements via feedback: - In addition t...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
10 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Log volume SYSUTILX

We have very large LOB objects (e.g. nnTBs). Due to the change (delete/insert/update) pattern of our applications, we have to use incremental image copies (IIC) very often to ensure recoverability for these objects. IIC for LOB objects generate lo...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration