IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

    Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

    The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

    IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

    We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    Add URL Shortener to KC Pages

    If you try to properly source knowledge center or promote a feature within knowledge center (say via twitter or linked-in), you copy and paste a URL that is easily over 100+ characters long. If you lose the ability to cut/paste (say in the PDF of ...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    Reorg pending status should be in a table like SYSCAT.TABLES

    The column that indicates if a table is in reorg-peding is in a table that is not in the schame SYSCAT. This value should be in a table in SYSCAT, because this schema is the catalog, and it is almost standard across versions, and it is a set of vi...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP

    Hello Team , One of the largest account from Norway wanted to use DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP . This is stopping orginization to migrate 20+ databases from other RDBMS . Currently DB2 databases on RHEL can only ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

    Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

    On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g. IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For ...
    11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    Please add a built-in function to reverse a string

    Currently to reverse a string, we have to create a udf. The syntax for a simple one was easily available on the SQLTips4Db2 blog .... which IBM has removed. I think Db2 on z has this, and some other variants of SQL out there include it. This is th...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

    Please add a built-in function for pi

    Currently there is no built-in function for pi. It can be calculated using math on trigonometric functions, but this is mildly annoying. Pi is frequently used when working with different random variate distributions and other functions that are in...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

    Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

    We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
    about 7 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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