IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

    Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
    about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

    Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel

    Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel Today it is mandatory to define sslClientLabel (aka Friendly Name) if SSLClientKeystoredb value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE" is set. We h...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Planned for future release

    Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

    DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Incompatible platform variation of Db2 software

    Our mission-critical system on the IBM i 7.1 has been in operation. But we are promoting the project that upgrades our IBM i 7.1 to i 7.3, because of software withdrawal and support discontinuance.So that also DBMS become upgrade to Db2 for i V7R3...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

    •As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

    DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

    In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

    Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

    There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

    As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Chat Session Personas to start a new chat session from a user pre-defined set of prompts

    I’m picturing something like a way for a user to setup multiple personas/templates, and they could start a new chat session using one of these personas. For example, I may have one persona / template for a Java application running on Liberty, and ...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

    Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

    We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

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