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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Add URL Shortener to KC Pages

If you try to properly source knowledge center or promote a feature within knowledge center (say via twitter or linked-in), you copy and paste a URL that is easily over 100+ characters long. If you lose the ability to cut/paste (say in the PDF of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Create a new authentication plugin for handling OAuth/OpenID protocol

The customer currently uses Kerberos but indents to move to OAuth/OpenID after upgrading from db2 V11.1 to V11.5 or V12
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Make NUMBLOCKPAGES automatic/self tuned

Make the value of NUMBLOCKPAGES to be automatically computed as a percentage of the total number of pages in a bufferpool AND/OR make at least the update of such value an online operation.
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for LSN mismatch at startup

Database when activated does basic sanity testing and file structural integrity testing so the time taken to bring up the database is kept to a minimum. Currently, it cannot possibly check all the objects for sequence number mismatch. This is true...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Error DIA3202C in db2diag.log does not include database name

getting an error in db2diag.log that a connection to a database ist not possible because of a TCP/IP call does not work. In our case a connection to a remote database should be established, which was already dropped. But there is no database name ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

add option to installFixPack command -f nojava

IBM ask to update java few weeks ago Then IBM ask us to apply a fixpack on our DB2 databases. The command installFixPack apply the DB2 fixpak and also install a new java version older than the one we installed few weeks ago. Could you modify the...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration