IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    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

    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

    COBOL Scanner Timeout and Continue Processing

    Some COBOL programs/files take hours to analyze, causing scans to remain incomplete—even after 10 days—because processing does not move forward. Please add a per-program/file analysis timeout that: Is configurable in the scanner UI; if that is not...
    24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Simplify DB2REMOTE log archive path name

    When configuring LOGARCHMETH1|2 for a DB2REMOTE Db2 always appends two forward slashes "//" to end of the path even though specifying the slashes isn't required. This makes it more difficult to automate Db2 configuration because while it's possibl...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

    For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 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

    Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

    Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Under review
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    export data from tables out of a backup image

    Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
    over 9 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

    Automate having 2 VIPs on the same server (Pacemaker)

    scneario:Db2 HADR/PacemakerROS (reads on standby enabled)VIP set for PrimaryVIP set for Standby (ROS) If a maintenance on standby is needed, the VIP from the Standby needs to be manually moved from the standby to the Primary (having both VIPs in t...
    9 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2

    Advanced JSON functionality

    It would be great if the JSON functionality could be expanded. Currently, we have the problem that Db2 doesn't support the 'nested path' JSON expression. For example, create table msct.json_test (id integer not null, json_data CLOB(10485760 OCTETS...
    9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

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