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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    WLM threshold for used log space

    We need an activity threshold to trigger an action whenever a specific activity consumes more than a given amount of transaction log space. I know that there is already some control mechanism by using DB CFG parameters MAX_LOG and NUM_LOG_SPAN , b...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

    page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

    At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

    DB2 Support for Business Partners

    Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 4 Functionality already exists

    ADMIN_MOVE_TABLES needs to support INDEXES on EXPRESSION

    ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE (AMT) procedure fails in SWAP phase, if the table to be moved has an expression based index defined. This issue has been lifted partially, as the RENAME of the table is now supported with INDEX on EXPRESSION (IoE). But in our case...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

    Provide published documentation that describes how DB2 can be configured to use Open Telemetry

    Open Telemetry is a widely adopted open source standard. Where customers are mandated to use Open Telemetry, they require guidance from IBM to ensure they can configure it effectively. Customers are keen to use Open Telemetry to allow flexibility ...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Needs more information

    Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

    Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
    about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    LOAD / ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE COPY YES and LOB improvements

    In an OLTP / TSA HADR environment .. When using the COPY YES on ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE it uses LOAD under the covers. When LOBs are involved howere it writes out the full buffer 64k up to several 100k is written out per column/per row to a file which is...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Support Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift

    Customers at the TAB meeting in Malta asked if/when Db2 support for Red Hat OpenShift will be available. With the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, support for OpenShift will become more and more important.
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

    In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
    almost 10 years ago in Db2 5 Functionality already exists

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