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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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Operating System/Virtualization

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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...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

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.
11 months 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.
over 4 years 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.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

New Redhat ipcmni_extend setting Recommendation in the DB2 Infocentre

Hello, Db2 Luw seems to be a victum of Redhat change https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4968021 The change is effective of Redhat 7.8+, where you need to set ipcmni_extend to allow db2 to request more then 32k of MSGMNI as per https://www.ibm.com...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Add support for NFS 4.2 on AIX 7.2

Sparse file support was added in NFSv4.2 and currently AIX supports NFS4.1 which does not have sparse capability. DB2 only supports fast pre-allocation on some file systems. Including Veritas VxFS, JFS2, GPFS, ext4 and xFS. Kindly include the supp...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Solaris client in Db2 v11.5

Db2 dropped the support for Solaris in V11.5, which is fine for server. However, many clients who run in Solaris could connect to other server (Linux, windows, AIX).
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

better logging for stack overflow, ulimit stack to small

With this PMR we were searching quite hard for the reason, why a 3rd-party-software was dying with segmentation fault in dynamic linked shared library libdb1.so We could only see:Feb 18 09:01:56 smtcb00254 kernel: [1270273.292859] os4x_licinfo[365...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration