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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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db2u-operator should be available in OperatorHub.io

Our OpenShift environments require a certified source for OpenShift-operators: OperatorHub.ioCurrently db2u is not available there, what prevents us from deploying the operator in our environment. By mirroring a db2u-repository from OperatorHub.io...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Expand DB CFG ddl_compression_def with adaptive option

The adaptive DB CFG extension would give us the opportunity to activate adaptive compression by default. At the moment it is only possible to activate the static camprosseion. Our idea is to set DDL_COMPRESSION_DEF to one of 3 possibilities: 1. NO...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Request to add password policy expiration date and policy NAME to console API metadata, as well as ability to generate automated notification ahead of password expiration.

In the Db2 Warehouse on Cloud console, under the Administration -> User Management -> Password Policies, a custom password policy can be configured with a defined expiration date. However, the "users" console API operation does not currently...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

DB2SimpleDataSource and DB2XADataSource cannot be instantiated in modules with add-modules=java.sql only (without jdk.net.ExtendedSocketOptions 11.x => 12.x).

For security and reliability reason our infrastructure partner (MuleSoft) is adding as less java modules to the runtime as possible. While in java-module-context only those modules are accessible which are in the module-info.java of the module. In...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Data Management Console: Configure the Web Access with SSO or OAUTH2

Security policies of customers require SSO or OAUTH2 support instead of just user/password for authentication at Data Management Console (DMC).
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

LOAD with COPY=YES and TSM needs similar resilience feature like log archiving with VENDOR_ARCHIVE_TIMEOUT

FI has set of LOAD jobs (with COPY=YES and use of TSM) which run in parallel against the Db2 data warehouse.FI experienced failing LOAD jobs in the LAN-free TSM backup environment for the Db2. FI sees risk for the LOAD jobs when TSM is not availab...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
about 8 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration