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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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    Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

    We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

    DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

    Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 1

    PL1/DL1 passing pointers for PCB's and CEETDLI support

    NRB cannot use full functionality of PL1 with DL1 access as they use CEETDLI as DL1 Interface program which is NOT supported. Other problem is that the PCB's are passed as pointers which is also not supported.
    about 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

    db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

    db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    More informative PL SQL compiling output

    db2 -td@ -vf sqlpl4ibm.sql CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST4IBM ()LANGUAGE SQLREADS SQL DATANO EXTERNAL ACTIONBEGIN DECLARE var_num_records INT DEFAULT -1; DECLARE var_unused_int INT DEFAULT -1; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO var_num_records FROM db2luw1.em...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration

    DB2 database in a read only mode

    Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

    IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

    Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

    A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

    Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

    DB2 data server client for Mac OS

    There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

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