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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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Transfer Row Permission ownership

Currently, besides dropping and recreating the row permission, there is no way to transfer the ownership of the permission. As we mentioned, besides the visibility on SYSIBMADM.OBJECTOWNERS, there is no impact or security concern of having the row...
15 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Publish GPG signing key for RPM packages on ibm.com

With Db2 12.1.5 RPM-based installation was introduced. RPM tries to verify the integrity of an RPM based on a GPG signing key. Currently, this key is distributed through the .tar.gz file which also contains the RPM files. The suggestion is to prov...
25 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Create a db2cm maintenance mode for HADR + Pacemaker

Db2 v12.1.xHADR + PacemakerLinux Problem: Db2 PureScale has an easy way to put a host from the cluster in maintenance mode that is: db2cm -enter -maintenance Db2 HADR + Pacemaker has the : db2cm -DISABLE -instance <instance_name> -host <h...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Decouple REORG (after REORG PENDING) and index rebuild of not enforcing indexes

When a table goes into REORG PENDING state the OFFLINE REORG needed not only runs the reorg but also rebuilds the indexes and the table stays unavailable for the whole time of all operations. Best scenario would be if the table becomes read access...
3 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Alonside existing GRANT and REVOKE privilege add DENY privilage

Microsoft SQL Server has three options: a) GRANT privilege, b) REVOKE privilege and c) DENY privilege. But IBM Db2 only has two: a) GRANT privilege and b) REVOKE privilege. How it should work? When ever there are two privileges specified GRANT and...
6 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Automate having 2 VIPs on the same server (Pacemaker)

scneario:Db2 HADR/PacemakerROS (reads on standby enabled)VIP set for PrimaryVIP set for Standby (ROS) If a maintenance on standby is needed, the VIP from the Standby needs to be manually moved from the standby to the Primary (having both VIPs in t...
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Future consideration

Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
9 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration