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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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CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Planned for future release

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Allow a WHERE clause for ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to delete data while moving a table

One of the most painful things to do is to delete a huge amount of data. One workaround for this is to export the data needed and then LOAD/REPLACE back into the same table, but this requires an outage of the table to accomplish. If a WHERE clause...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Replace a brand new server in a pacemaker cluster

Env ====DB2 V12.1.1 (Special Build 54779) with HADR setting on RHEL V9.4 1) HADR Primary : server-1 2) HADR Standby : server-2 3) A single ESE : server-3 Steps ====1) Config server-1 & server-2 as HADR pair2) Config pacemaker to join server-1 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3

For IBMi SYSTOOLS.DELETE_OLD_SPOOLED_FILES, add number of spool files deleted when Preview => NO

Current implementation deletes spool files but user does not know how many. Would be helpful to return a result for this execution. Similar might be done for deleting old journal receivers.
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration