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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    Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

    We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Submitted

    when editing connection you can activate the option to initialize HADR

    When editing the connection, the option to initialize HADR will appear on the screen. Today this option is only possible for new connections or databases. However, every old database can become a HADR. With this option, you would not need to delet...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Submitted

    Improve the HADR commands for pureScale setups

    Make it easier and more intuitive to operate HADR in a pureScale environment by adding "AT MEMBER X" to the START HADR command. For example: START HADR FOR DATABASE SAMPLE AS STANDBY AT MEMBER 1 That could have two functions: If there is current...
    10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

    Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

    The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

    Please make DB2_HADR_ROS a dynamic registry setting

    Please make DB2_HADR_ROS registry a dynamic registry variable.
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

    REORG Utility

    The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Image COPY utility

    Need an image COPY utility so that individual tables and/or tablespaces can be backed up. This is required so that an object can be restored to the COPY that was taken without bringing HADR down.
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    What part of Db2 still requires 32-bit support?

    While talking with Keri Romanufa at IDUG Philadelphia I was asked to enter this as an RFE to be checked on.During a Db2 LUW installation for pureScale on a 64-bit machine, which will have only(!) 64-bit executables, a lot of 32-bit libraries are r...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

    Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

    Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
    10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

    With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
    10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

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