IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

    Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

    For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

    Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

    Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
    11 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

    Expose Field Analysis through REST API

    The newly introduced field analysis is a very helpful feature - in order to use this in external tools, we would want to have the JSON data that the field analysis returns to the UI exposed vie the REST API.
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Under review

    Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

    With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
    15 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

    licensing for db2connect change

    as a small MSP we eventually ran into a situation where a customer wants to test DB2connect for development purposes. Current Licensing requires us to buy or rent DB2connect for all IBM i enabled cores on the particular server which then can be us...
    6 months ago in Db2 1 Submitted

    dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

    dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Submitted

    Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

    The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    Add support in Db2 to disable GSKit session cache using GSK_V2_SIDCACHE_SIZE and GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE

    Db2 currently uses GSKit for cryptographic and TLS operations, and the GSKit session cache is enabled by default. While GSKit itself allows disabling the session cache by setting environment variables such as GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE=0, Db2 does not h...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Under review

    DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

    Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

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