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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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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...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

VSAI support Community-Edition and Trial-Editions of Visual-Studio-2017

Request for Db2-LUW VSAI (Visual Studio Add In) to support the COMMUNITY EDITION and TRIAL-VERSIONs of "Visual Studio 2017". At present, the VSAI setup program throws DBI20056E for Visual-Studio-2017-COMMUNITY-EDITION and 30-day trial versions of ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 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...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

SSL Password authentication with KMIP protocol

KMIP 1.1 does not support CN+password authentication in SSL connectivity with KEYSECURE. As of now ONLY CN (hostname) is handshanked to established connectivity with KEYSECURE.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Declarative RI for Db2 LUW Bitemporal tables

it would be good to implement Bi-temporal Period Containment with declarative RI in Db2 LUW
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Struts 2.5.26 that is packaged as part of Rational Developer for i

IBM RDI 9.6.0.11 includes struts2-core-2.5.26.jar in the Webcontent > WebINF > lib folder when a new Webfacing project is created in RDI. This version of struts2 jar is vulnerable to a security vulnerability as per Whitesource, with id CVE-2...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Future consideration

The change 'Primary Key Name' is added!

Currently, I know that there is no function to change only the 'Primary Key Name' of Db2. Especially in the case of Primary Key, Unique Index is also created when it is generated! Since the primary key name cannot be duplicated, there is a problem...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Restore with SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS requires db entry in list db drirectory

To know master key details, SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS require db entry in list db directory otherwise it creates new entry. To get the details from backup image on production system - requires prod db to be down which is not feasible.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 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
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration