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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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Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

IP restrictions for public administrative access (dedicated VPC)

Restricting the devices that can connect from public environments by IP address is a requirement of the customer's security policy and is requested by Japanese customers.This function was implemented in Gen2, but not in Gen3, and this has been poi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
about 5 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Functionality already exists

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 3 years ago in Db2 6 Functionality already exists