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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    TRY_CAST for DB2 LUW (CAST without error)

    "New" scalar-function TRY_CASTReturns a value cast to the specified data type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

    DDL creation support thru implicit trusted connection

    Trusted context is a very good security mecanism to promote a user from an application server to a specific role. We face 2 problems:- DDL issued from Siebel application server, when applying a change, fails for CREATE TABLE- If user has no direct...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

    After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DB2 V9.7

    When doing the case sensitive search, the index on ALT_IDENTIFIER is used correctly, and the query takes around 0.2 seconds as expected. When doing the case insensitive search, the optimiser correctly uses the V_N1999152021 column rather than the ...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

    Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
    about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Encryption utility for RSP files

    Goal: create RSP (response) file to install Db2 LUW on multiple systems, but allow for customization of the password for the instance owner without having to go through the GUI installer for each, and avoid displaying the password in plain text in...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Ability to recover an individual table

    We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

    Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

    Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

    In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Allow users to force their own connections.

    Allow users without sysadm,sysctrl or sysmaint to force their own connections. Attaching e-mail thread on the topic: Walid Rjaibi/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA07/31/09 09:46 AM To Hebert Pereyra/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA cc Dimitri Milionis/Phoenix/IBM@IBMUS Subject...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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