IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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    Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

    Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
    8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

    During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

    db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

    We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
    4 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Replace a brand new server in a pacemaker cluster

    Env ====DB2 V12.1.1 (Special Build 54779) with HADR setting on RHEL V9.4 1) HADR Primary : server-1 2) HADR Standby : server-2 3) A single ESE : server-3 Steps ====1) Config server-1 & server-2 as HADR pair2) Config pacemaker to join server-1 ...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    SQL0659N to supply relevant data

    When a query fails with SQL0659 ("Maximum size of a table object has been exceeded") there is no indication of which object is at fault. In the execution I am examining there is also nothing relevant in the diagnostic log. An indication in the err...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    remove restriction "rwx" for others from "/tmp" or location configured by DB2TMPDIR variable

    To extra secure the server where DB2 software is installed it is preferred to create directories which don't have write and executable rights for others. On this way it prevents an ordinary user to create scripts on its own and execute them. In th...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

    I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

    Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

    This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
    10 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0

    MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

    Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

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