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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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Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison for IBM SQL Data Insights Pro

I propose adding an Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison capability to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro to help organizations manage complex AI-powered data investigations more efficiently and systematically. This enhancement would provid...
27 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 10 Submitted

More control over WLM for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud

We are running a large data warehouse in the IBM Cloud for the Your Learning application. We sometimes struggle with queries which are put into Queued status. We would like to have more control over the WLM in order to manage our workload.
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Planned for future release

Db2 Pacemaker - HADR - Adding move option in db2cm utility for HADR

Currently, move option in db2cm utility is only applicable for mutufailover configuration and lookinng for the same option for HADR as well. This helps to avoid login to standby instance and issuing takeover manually to trigger the move option. Pa...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Needs more information

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

DB2 HADR with Pacemaker: use systemd to gracefully takeover to standby before server shutdown

Using DB2 HADR with Pacemaker. Before a shutdown/boot of the primary server in a cluster (for planned OS maintenance or otherwise), a takeover of the databases should be executed on the standby server. This avoids a forced takeover. We would like ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration