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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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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Operating System/Virtualization

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please add support for RHEL7.7 to Db2 11.5.9

Currently, RHEL 7.7 is not included in the supported OS for Db2 11.5.9. Additionally, fix information and vulnerability countermeasures have been updated since Db2 11.5.7, which is currently in use, and customers are requesting that vulnerabilitie...
7 months ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW should support 1GB pages on Linux x64 platform

When using VMWare as Host System for (RH) Linux we are able to configure 1GB Pages like: sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage = "TRUE" On the other hand DB2 on Linux Redhat Guest System right now does only support huge (2MB) pages per IBM DB2 documentatio...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Make NUMBLOCKPAGES automatic/self tuned

Make the value of NUMBLOCKPAGES to be automatically computed as a percentage of the total number of pages in a bufferpool AND/OR make at least the update of such value an online operation.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Need DB2 LUW to support NUMA processor technology on Windows

The NUMA processor group technology is currently not supported by DB2 v10.5 and up for Windows. I would like IBM to add support for this feature in DB2 v10.5 and up as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of my server. (Currently runni...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Support for running on Amazon Linux 2

Add Amazon Linux 2 as a supported operating system for running Db2.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add an Ideas Category for IBMi Ideas

No good place to log ideas for IBMi related ideas. Create categories for IBMi related ideas so that we can help to drive improvements to the platform.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add db2mq support to db2u

As an aside the categories for ideas should include db2u or containers etc. You should add db2mq support to the db2u operator and db2 shift.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration