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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    Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

    1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

    Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

    Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

    CREATE PROCEDURE add new SQL SECURITY keyword

    Hi Team, I would like the "CREATE PROCEDURE" functionality to be enhanced with a SQL SECURITY keyword. Currently it is only possible with the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION = <dbadm-user> in a stored procedure to let users execute the specific SQ...
    29 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

    Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

    IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

    Database Cross Load for tables with XML-Columns (restriction SQL1407N)

    Since XML columns were implemented in DB2 years ago, many customers want to transfer data from one database to another (e.g., when moving from an on-premises environment to the cloud). All data can be load via cross-load like this CALL ADMIN_CMD('...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

    Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    SSH certificate for DB2 Purescale user authentication

    Our customer has a DB2 Purescale environment configred, that was configured by default with ssh keys per product specification. But per Customer requirements, they need to replace ssh keys with ssh certificates, but DB2 does not currently test or ...
    4 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

    In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
    8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Expose column-level CCSID metadata in DbDataReader and support automatic/configurable CCSID 65535 conversion in the IBM .NET provider for Db2 on i.

    Why is it useful? In modern enterprise architectures, applications are often deployed as multi-tenant or multi-company systems connecting to IBM i. In these environments, identical tables and columns across different company schemas/libraries may ...
    16 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

    Speed up db2ckbkp

    We check each backup image and with the V 12.1 ITP has speed up the backup elapsed time, however db2ckbkp is still running through the images sequentially. We validate each backup, however db2ckbkp takes longer than the backup itself.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

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