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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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Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Not under consideration

Knowledge Center Search Issues

The IBM info center (online searchable documentation) has become less and less useful over the years. Documentation on a topic is often fragmented across multiple pages that link to each other. This makes it very difficult to find a piece of infor...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Write-suspend should never hang the engine and disallow connections(RIMS)

Write-suspend should never hang the engine and require it to be restarted. Connections should be allowed and be able to issue a write-resume. Please see PMR18252,442,000
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Online move CF/Member for pureScale

Online move CF/Member to new machine
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

click on Logfile in SQW Admin Console

We cannot view the subordinate logs from parallel container while analyzing the logs in AdminConsole Web-Log-Viewer. (See Case TS000078576) There is no possibility to open this subordinated Log, as the Filename is not clicable. We need it fixed, a...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

db2stop needs to be collecting the information IBM support require for diagnosing their own code and problem

DB2 should generate stacks to troubleshoot its own code, db2stop needs to be collecting the information IBM support require for diagnosing their own code and problem
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Technote Searchable Index

Document Change Request: please supply a searchable index of all DB2 technotes - titles and URLs are all that's required. You will get 254 results (today), most of these will not be technotes and only if you are lucky will the one technote on the ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

To request that DB2 code page conversion table can support HKSCS-2008 for codepage 1375

Per DB2's documentation, DB2 code page conversion table can only support HKSCS-2004 for codepage 1375: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.nls.doc/doc/r0004565.html?lang=enhttp://www-01.ibm.com/suppor...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration