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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    new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

    Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Needs more information

    Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

    Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

    While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
    over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

    Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

    Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

    Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

    The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

    Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

    Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Integrate HashiCorp Vault secret management

    We want to be able to pull secrets (usernames and passwords) from HashiCorp Vault paths to populate connection fields in the Manta. As we grow the number of connections we have so to does the maintenance upkeep when we need to update passwords, if...
    over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

    Lineage platform support for partial scans

    The scanner platform should support partial and delta lineage analysis. Partial scans - We want to be able to scan different parts of a single data source independently (e.g. each DataStage project independently, or each database schema independen...
    10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Planned for future release

    OpenTelemetry

    Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
    10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration

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