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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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Support the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
12 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Consistent Navigational views for Calculations, Workflows and Views

Currently when viewing all the views, you can filter by Object Type or view name but similar functionality doesn't exist on Workflows and Calculations which makes it difficult to search for Workflows and Calculations. Just to summarize, we need th...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

Ability to customize the stage reminder email body

Useful: Ability to customize the stage reminder (scheduled reminder) email body, standard email body content doesn't satisfy customer. They want custom reminder emails just like the notification on the workflow action. Benefit: Stage reminder (sch...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Under review

Provide a Zowe setting to suppress any prompting for a client certificate when accessing Zowe from a browser.

Today we have been forced to use as cumbersome unique set of AT-TLS rules to prevent a user from being prompted for a certificate so they don't select an invalid certificate causing connections to fail outright. We would like to eliminate as much ...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted