IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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    Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

    Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
    5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

    Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

    It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

    DB2 Community Edition needs to support Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

    I receive errors when running the db2prereqcheck ERROR : Requirement not matched. See cat -n of output log file in Additional details ... specific errors: 46 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 114 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 182 ERROR : Require...
    4 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

    The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

    When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
    2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

    We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

    Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

    QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
    almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

    QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

    QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
    12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    QMF read only mode

    QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
    10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    DB2 LUW: Add GnuCOBOL to supported compilers under Linux and Windows

    Users of DB2 LUW regularly need to run their COBOL on LUW as well. DB2 LUW offers thje necessary precompiler for EXEC SQL to provide that. Those users previously had to use Micro Focus (now called Rocket COBOL), but have a working alternative in G...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

    When setting 'DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA' in non-ora DB, the resulting string length is different.

    when it's going to setup "db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA"~ $ db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA$ db2stop force03/27/2023 18:05:52 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.$ db2start03/27/2023 ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

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