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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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Provisioning rule required to remove KEY LABELS for test instances

Devops Experience applications are created from a production, or like-production source. In production we use pervasive encryption, and so some tables have a KEY LABEL defined and make use of ICSF and data encryotion. In test environments we do no...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1

Provide Support for INSERT and WITH in QMF for WebSphere

Please evaluate providing support for INSERT with WITH in QMF for WebSphere. This is currently available in QMF for TSO
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow an instance to be provisioned consisting of Applications sourced from different Db2 Systems

We need the ability to provision an instance in a Db2 system where the instance consists of applications that originate from 2 different systems. DOE is there to support early testing which can often occur in a zD&T/zVM guest/or similar enviro...
8 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhanced Export command

The EXPORT QUERY command currently allows users to export only one single query at a time to a dataset. We have users asking for a way to export multiple queries all at once to single dataset for backup/reference purpose. And users have thousands ...
8 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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

Please allow QMF Vision to support .NET 4.8

I am at an organization that has .NET 4.8 installed on all of our work environments. We are unable to install .NET 3.5 therefore we cannot use QMF Vision.
9 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release