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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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    NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

    NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Restore with a new table name

    Add a new feature to allow to restore tablespaces with new names of tablespaces and tables
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    create new TS type called staging or workarea

    Create a new Tablespace type called staging. Any objects in this TS will not be backed up or logged.
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    allow "COMMENT ON" statement to add comments longer than 254-char to 2000

    254-char long field too small to store comments attached to added objects (views, nicknames, columns, indices) when apps migrated from ORACLE to DB2
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Enable browsing of "local" XML data

    In ADMIN Tool it is possible to browse XML-data from distributed Db2 via Option: DD - Distributed DB2 systems This works, because DRDA protocol does a conversion for data that is not compatible to the local CCSID. When trying this on a local Syste...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DB2oC UI logon acceptance user name size greater than 20 characters

    DB2oC User Interface is a smart way to access administration roles in a DB2oC instances. DB2oC UI has a limit of 20 (twenty) characters to user name size. In my company, for security purposes, we priorize logon proccess that uses IBMCloud App-ID s...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

    autoexplain

    Hi, With postreSQL, it is possible to have execution plans of slow statements automatically, without having to run EXPLAIN by hand. Wtih differents formats : text, xml, json, yaml. These plans are generated when a query exceeds a duration, the val...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Reorg online with a mapping table

    It will be very helpful to have a new reorg online with a mapping table like on DB2 z/OS with the same performance level.
    about 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Enhancement regarding the .ftok file and the DB2 instance.

    I will suggest the following:1. Let Db2 log a simple message 'The .ftok file is missing, last seen ' when the instance started.2. Also, suggest to execute ~/sqllib/bin/db2ftok or go ahead and execute it
    about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

    In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

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