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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Add varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)

We are frequently moving data between MS-SQL server and Db2. When data are moved from Db2 to MS-SQL there are no issues. But when data are moved from MS-SQL to DB2 we have frequent problems with varchar and nvarchar data types for data types where...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow IBM Data Server Runtime Client ODBC to connect with TLS signer certifcate to DB2 Server

DB2 ODBC client connect will not send a TLS signer certificate to DB2 server unless the client keystore DB has a default certificate. I had to set the cert as the default certificated in the my local keystore db >gsk8capicmd -cert -setdefault ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Tablespace reports rollforward pending after an HADR takeover report success

Banco do Brasil built a DR site and deployed a DB2 Purescale with HADR between these sites.HADR is in peer state. Then customer perform a takeover to switch HADR roles between sites.After the takeover finished successfully we tried to activate the...
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

Start bufferpool command

New db2 commands to start / reallocate the bufferpool : start bufferpool bp32k ;
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Close Email notifications subject line should match open email notification subject line

We sort our emails by subject to easily see notifications for alerts and if they were closed. For critical alerts DMC uses this format for the email subject when an alert opens: <ConnectionName>: Critical Alert <AlertNumber> <AlertT...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Reorg timeout parameter

Set a new parameter to specify a reorg timeout limit.
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration