IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Please add buffering for LOBs

    Please add buffering for LOBs
    about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Increase Database Name Length Restriction

    Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    REORG Utility

    The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
    11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Image COPY utility

    Need an image COPY utility so that individual tables and/or tablespaces can be backed up. This is required so that an object can be restored to the COPY that was taken without bringing HADR down.
    11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Will like to see default change for enableSysplexWLB from false to true since this property is mostly applicable to Db2 z/OS

    We have lots and lots on JDBC connections to our Db2 z/OS servers. We also have a very large number of Db2 z/OS subsystems. About 98 % of those are Data Sharing. We are seeing large concentration of connections on only one particular member of the...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

    Db2 for LUW - Encryption of logfiles

    For DR purposes: I can create an encrypted db backup with encrlib/encropts - and that backup can be taken to a "remote" S3 bucket - using keys,etc. So far so good. I would like to be able to do the same thing for either logarchmeth1 or logarchmeth...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Needs more information

    Remote storage and datalake tables for Db2 on AIX

    The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. Many large customers have their Db2 workloads on Power/AIX, benefitting from the platform. To keep Db2 as core component of lakehouse architectu...
    11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

    Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

    Support index on expressions for virtual indexes

    During the SQL performance tuning for a query having a scalar function (lower case) coded in it, DB2 SQLPA tool was checked to see if there is an option to create a virtual index but since there is no way of creating it in the current version, use...
    11 months ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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