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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    IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

    Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
    over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

    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

    Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

    Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
    about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

    DB2 Database Server/Container for arm64 linux

    Currently the db2 database provided by the community edition only supports the following operating systems/architectures:* Microsoft Windows (x64)* Linux (x64)* Linux (IBM Z)* Linux (Power PC)* IBM AIX This means that running the database on any a...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 5 Under review

    IBM Data Management Console scheduled reports in PDF format

    Currently the "Create scheduled report" only allows a URL of the report to be sent out in an email. This is to request a PDF attachment option made available so that users can access it directly in their emails instead of logging on to DMC to view...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

    We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

    Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

    There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the tabl...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

    Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

    We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Under review

    Please add buffering for LOBs

    Please add buffering for LOBs
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

    Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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