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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    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.
    about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

    If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
    about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

    We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

    Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

    We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Fix to enable pureScale support with Red Hat KVM on Power

    There is a PCI Passthrough issue on Red Hat KVM that would probably not be fixed by Red Hat until V7.4 at the earliest. LTC has proposed an alternative approach to avoid the contention that pureScale is using PCI Passthrough to address.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

    Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

    When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    ISO/IEC 9075:2016-2, T612: Add ability to declare window frame that can be shared between window functions

    When you need to use the same window frame for several window functions, T612 can simplify the query. Example from code of advent, day 1: select id, case when count(1) over w = 3 then sum(depth) over w end depth from day1.input window w as (order ...
    almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    recover droped table with LOBS

    System DB2 LUW 10.5.8Actor: DocumentationDescription: The documentation does not fit with the behaviour of the product.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    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 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

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