IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

    Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

    Support temporarily adding additional PVs (storage) for use in temporary tablespaces (reorgs, partial restores, admin move tables, ...)

    As an enterprise customer, there are actions to improve data structure or performance by reorgs or admin move tables. Having large indexes and tables with tablespaces >4 TB, there is the need to create temporary tablespaces. However, today this...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

    Support separation of volumes for DB2 data and transaction protocol (following best practices) and support flexible scaling (up and down) of volume for transaction log

    We request that DB2 on cloud stores transaction log in a separate PV so that there is no risk of running out of storage when doing large reorgs increasing secondary log files. As today tx log and data is on the same PV, there could be a problem wi...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 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 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration

    Support Oracle lineage extraction in Data Guard read-only environments without requiring primary database access

    DESCRIPTION Many enterprise Oracle environments use Oracle Data Guard architectures where governance and metadata tools are allowed to access only read-only standby databases, while direct access to production primary databases is restricted. Curr...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

    The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

    I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

    Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

    It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
    12 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

    Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

    Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
    10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    DB2 Upgrades in rolling fashion

    Problem Statement: At present we are following IBM process to upgrade db2 hadr servers: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization Current IBM process involves an...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

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