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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.

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Add possibility to create dashboards over several databases

I would really to be able to create a dashboard, containing the activity response time of my top-10 databases. Or to be able to look at the graphs of some databases in 1 glance.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Adding storage path to specific partition

Recently I faced a problem on a DPF environment. I had raised below case with IBM and seems as of now this is not possible. In DPF environment, how can I add storage path to a specific database partititon? The below command adds the storage path t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Future consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Modify uninstallSAM to allow for forced removal

Unsuccessful use of uninstallSAM to remove TSAMP component RPMs after disk storage loss/corruption of path /usr/sbin/rsct
over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration