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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.
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This is a reasonable requirement and Optim Product Management agrees it is desirable.
Some considerations:
The alternative and sometimes only solution is to defer referential integrity (RI) relationship checking.
There is a workaround, to disable one relationship in the cycle, in the test environment, while fabricating with TDF. Oracle has an RI ENABLE and also a DISABLE command. This is one form of deferring RI relationship checking. The client in this case has rejected this option for internal reasons.
There are some cycles that cannot be supported at all via SQL DML, for certain databases. Some DBMSes cannot defer RI checking until COMMIT, but enforce RI immediately upon insert. For those DBMSes, take the case where there are 2 tables where each row in table A has 1 and only 1 RI related row in table B, and each row is both parent and child to the other. In this case there is no way that SQL DML (Insert or Update) can be used to insert the cyclical data, whether we change TDF or not. The only way to make this work is to again defer RI checking. You can use a load utility. Load utilities defer the check until after loading.
Bottom line, there are cases where TDF (or any tool or user) cannot create cycles without deferring checking. So we view this as an acceptable temporary restriction and will evaluate when to work on lifting it in future.