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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    Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

    Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Allow to switch off username conversion to lowercase

    We are currently using Db2, SLES11, RACF/LDAP (zOS). Application users (personalized users, not system users) connecting to Db2 are defined in RACF/LDAP. Db2 user authentication and authorization is using Transparent LDAP, accessing RACF/LDAP. T...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

    In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

    LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
    over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

    Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

    Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

    Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

    As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

    Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

    Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 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...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

    Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

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