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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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UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Korean Language Support in Database Assistant

Db2 Database Assistant needs to support the Korean language. For Korean customers, it should be able to process natural language in Korean so that the assistant AI chatbot can be effectively utilized, thereby enhancing DBA productivity.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 client authentication with certificates like SSH (public/private) keys

Provide the possibility to authenticate with public/private certificates for the current client user like SSH does
about 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Make Db2 compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux CIS benchmarks

The CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Benchmark v2.0.0 has the following entry: "1.1.2.4.3 Ensure nosuid option set on /var partition (Automated)" Since the db2sshid is installed in /var/db2/db2ssh and especially file db2remssh, which requires setuid...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

DB2 Support for Business Partners

Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 4 Functionality already exists

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration