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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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Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to use db2audit data in the DMC.

Please provide a way to store db2audit data in DMC and to easily view, use, and report on audit logs. Currently db2luw can only store and extract audit data, but there is no repository db and no way to use it. I hope DMC will have such a feature a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Create a tool in db2 luw that is provided to be fully STIG compliant, like the 'security_compliance_manager' in IIAS.

To improve the security of db2 luw, please create a tool that is provided to be fully compliant with the STIG, like the 'security_compliance_manager' in IIAS. I know you have plans for a CIS benchmark, but please create a tool that is STIG complia...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

•As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

Extend allowed length of diagnostics via MESSAGE_TEXT

When migrating a Db2 connection from the legacy Db2 for i / iSeries setup to the newer Db2 LUW-style .NET provider using the Net.IBM.Data.Db2 NuGet package, we encountered a problem. In the old iSeries situation, custom error messages raised throu...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

ADDI Job Flow: Step/PROC Node Click Should Navigate to Source Code Like Job Name Does

In ADDI, when testing Job Flow visualization, clicking the Job Name at the top correctly opens the corresponding JCL source. However, when clicking on a Step name or PROC name within the Job Flow diagram, ADDI does not bring up the associated code...

Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable 'SYSADM' authority to end users in Db2 on Cloud

In the db2 database configuration for IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager, the 'CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE' authority is required as part of setup. This is not supported on DB2 Cloud since granting it requires the 'SYSADM' authority which...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration