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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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Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Allow EBCDIC collation for column organize tables

Db2 does not support anh collation other than IDENTITY or IDENTITY_16BIT per this link - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=to-restrictions-limitations-unsupported-database-configurations-column-organized-tables. Customers who are wanting ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 partitioned table, set range of partitions to read only or read write mode

Table data is partitioned as specified in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.At this moment if we create partitioned table, we can only set whole table to read only access using SET INTEGRITY FOR table OFF READ ACCESSor let it b...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. Si...
over 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

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

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