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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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Advanced JSON functionality

It would be great if the JSON functionality could be expanded. Currently, we have the problem that Db2 doesn't support the 'nested path' JSON expression. For example, create table msct.json_test (id integer not null, json_data CLOB(10485760 OCTETS...
about 4 hours ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

IDAA Admin Services : Unable to view Accelerator in separate tabs

In UMS, when we explore objects and bring up Accelerators list, we are able to view only one Accelerator at a time. when we right click on another accelerator and open in new tab, it does not work. In data studio we can open multiple Accelerators ...
about 2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance UMS to fully support AT-TLS.

From time to time we get audit findings for SSL vulnerabilities and so we prefer having that all centralized in AT-TLS to provide better visibility and management than having to tweak individual products.
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide mechanism to see 'logged in' users

This is really a Zowe and UMS Idea but I couldn't find Zowe and we use Zowe in support of UMS. It would be very helpful prior to performing any changes requiring a shutdown to know if anyone is currently logged into UMS (and Zowe but since our use...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 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

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 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

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

cancel this please, opened in error - Provide full symbol support in UMS both in the web page and Yaml file

It would be helpful in our deployment if we could simply change a system symbol when upgrading/applying patches. Also, having the ability to specify host names in the subsystem registration function would allow for 'hands off' DR testing where tod...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review