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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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Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Implement compression of REST request and reply data

We're using the REST interface. But sometimes we get a lot of data back. E.g. when we retreive a contract with a high inquiry level. Sending this data can be speed up by using gzip (or an other format) as a lot of REST API's already do.
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox for multi-select prompts during report validation

In Cognos 11, there is no checkbox for selecting multiple values during report validation of a report containing a multi-select parameterised filter on hierarchy of dimension. Right now we are using the Ctrl key to select values, but it is very di...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use extension and subsitutionGroups in XSD

The MDM data model has you extend entities and the implementation of extensions is done via extending the Java classes. For instance if you extend the Person entity then your generated extension class extends "TCRMPersonBObj", however the Java ext...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

RTM column names update

In the 'grid -> job details' view ($RTM_TOP/cacti/plugins/grid/grid_bjobs.php), the names of the column 'Num CPUs' and 'Max Procs' are confusing. Is it possible to rename its respectively 'Alloc Slots' and 'Max slots' ?
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Classic CDC changes for IMS RFE 102607

Request required changes to classic change data capture for IMS to reflect changes to IMS RFE 102607.
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

ANSI SQL-99 Support in DVM

A customer recently conducted a PoC using DVM and z/OS Connect as an alternative to an existing ETL based system which does nightly offloads of IMS data from the mainframe into a SQL Server database which is accessed by client applications. The e...
almost 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 RFE for tablespaces objects replication

IBM Data for Availability V1.2 (IBM Db2 Replication for Continuous Avalability) lacks replication of CREATE, ALTER, DROP and other statements like authorise and revoke for tablespace objects. When using IIAS console to define table replication wh...

Being able to collect attached file in chat conversation

Hi, It would be great if we could collect a file during a conversation (even small file like word document) Example 1: - A user connect to the chat and want to apply for a job offer after vewing all the current opportunities, he entrer...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration