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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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Enable HA/failover functionality at instance level or for groups of databases

DB2 performs failover only at the database level. If a group/set of databases are related, e.g. used for the same application, those databases should ideally failover together, but under the current design, those failovers have to be done individu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

schema-privilege for USAGE ON SEQUENCE

To GRANT USAGE ON SEQUENCE there is only the old method with db2 grant usage on sequence sq_test to role <rolename> But i want to use schema-privileges, but there is not the function GRANT USAGEIN ON SCHEMA MYSCHEMA TO ROLE <rolename> ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Make authentication cache independent from IDM calls

It is useful to keep the authentication working fine using the data from the cache even in case IDM has problems or is unavailable. Today, the authentication cache provided by Db2 is able to speed up the authentication process, but if we have issu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Grant 'create, drop and alter a tablespace' authority to specific user

The Sysctl group can create, drop and alter a tablespace in db2 and also have all authorities of SYSMAINT and SYSMON. Customer just want to give tablespace control authority to specific user.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Remote DB2 connections via Universal Diver T4 not well balanced.

Sysplex workload balancing does not guarantee that executions are distributed among the available systems. It depends on the capacity of the systems (WLM choose systems with more CPs/ZIIPs), performance index of enclaves, and DB2 system health (fr...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Page-level recovery request.

DB2 is not able to repair a single bad page, i.e. to perform a page-level recovery.This causes a downtime because the only solution is the execution of the OFFLINE procedures, like RESTORE/RECOVER/db2dart.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration