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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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Update db2haicu to create network equivalencies as dynamic

From PMR 65315.999.866: In determining our HADR configuration, and from running the utility "db2tsacheck" it's been recommended to convert our network equivalency resources from static to dynamic. This allows the interface resource to persist in c...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Hybrid blu column / row tables

Create a new table type wich allow to mix row / column organized table.
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

More Granularity on DISPLAY command authority (display procedure)

We'd appreciate if there was a more granular level of authority to permit schema owners of stored procedures to be able to display status of stored procedures. We are concerned from an audit standpoint that granting system-display privilege would ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TEMP index purge performance under high concurrency

In the environments that use a high number of temporary tables (DGTTs/CGTTs) with indexes, performance of temp object instantiation is severely impacted under high concurrency, i.e. when we have many objects dropped and recreated at the same time ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0

Rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority

After discussing this with our developers they agree that the ability to rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority. They agree that having the rename procedure automatically handle the recreation of RC...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

enhancement to "force application command"

enhance the "FORCE APPLICATION" command to identify threads belonging to a particular database and purging the threads
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Standby IDs should be

db2pd does not show corresponding STANDBY_ID on standby servers when using multiple standbys.For example: Invoking db2pd on the PRIMARY database shows the STANDBY_ID's (1=PRINCIPAL, 2 and 3 = AUX), invoking the db2pd on the related STANDBY's does ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration