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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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On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period. - This has been discussed with Jason Sizto.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Planned for future release

DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Automate Online Reorgs

Currently, automatic reorgs can only be performed offline. The additional functionality we are looking for would be the ability to perform automatic in-place/online reorgs. The benefit of that is users still have full table access during the proce...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

We should expand the maximum size of a LOB object per table or table partition

Enhance Maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition (in terabytes) 4 -> 8,16,32,64,128
almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Data transfer between different database schema

Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

ALSM for pureScale

ALSM (advanced log space management) is a nice feature to workaround long living transaction e.g. LOAD which write low volume of log records.
7 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW support on Ubuntu 22.04

Please support Ubuntu 22.04 on v11.5 and vNext. Ubuntu 22.04 was released in April 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is April 2025 but it takes time for us to package, test and d...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted