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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    Support OpenSSL

    Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

    It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for MQ writer subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

    The IBM Manta IFPC scanner supports MQ Reader. But the subtype MQ writer is not supported. Any workflow that writes into a queue fails and nothing is loaded in the repository.
    18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Add support for DB2zOS subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

    DB2 is supported by the IFPC scanner. But the DB2zOS subtype is not supported. As a result, the workflow fails containing this type fails and does not load anything in the Manta repository. This is a major problem for a lot of systems that have DB...
    18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    change default value for audit_buf_sz to non-zero

    AUDIT_BUF_SZ is 0 by default. When it's 0 and combined with a very busy Db2 database and poor disk performance for the audit log destination, the performance impact of auditing can be significant. We want this parameter to be a small non-zero valu...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

    Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

    Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

    LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
    11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 1 Future consideration

    Enable add external databases in DMC bundled in CP4D

    DMC console bundled with CP4D is capable monitor only DB2 instances deployed inside CP4D. It will be helpfull enable usersconnect also databases ouside of CP4D. For example in case you have deployed Cognos as part of CP4D but your databases are ex...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

    Include transform feature from Natural to Java

    Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

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