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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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    DB2 LUW DBM CFG RQRIOBLK increase upper limit

    When using DB2 LUW client to connect to the Z/os database using the IBM Datastage ETL tool the RQRIOBLK DBM parameter is limiting the packet size of data, this will happen with anyone who pulls data in any significant volumes using the DB2 Driver ...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under 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...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

    We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Enable compression for LOBs that are not inline

    Customer would like non-inline LOBS to also be compressed, as inline LOBs can currently be. Many other datatypes can be compressed and there are many large (up to 20MB) LOBs that are stored outside the table that would not eat up so much space if ...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

    Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

    Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

    This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Prevent backend business rule code from displaying in SAP SuccessFactors UI; show only processed user-friendly data.

    Why is it useful? Currently, users see raw backend rule code (Java logic) instead of their benefit details. This creates confusion, reduces trust, and impacts usability. Who would benefit? Employees: They will see clear benefit enrollment details ...
    9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 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 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Bufferpool Purge without database deactivation

    Ability to purge the bufferpools (perhaps specified by bufferpool name) without deactivating the entire database. While dirty pages can be flushed from bufferpools with the flush bufferpools command, the bufferpools cannot be entirely purged witho...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    AD - New feature to broadcast message to analyze client users.

    Currently AD has no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify maintenance alerts w...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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