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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    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

    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.
    29 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

    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

    Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

    In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted
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    NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

    Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Support OpenSSL

    Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    change default value for audit_buf_sz to non-zero

    AUDIT_BUF_SZ is 0 by default. When it's 0 and combined with a very busy Db2 database and poor disk performance for the audit log destination, the performance impact of auditing can be significant. We want this parameter to be a small non-zero valu...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

    It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

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