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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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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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remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring table function to display details on the application and its temp space usage

Often times, users would like to get a single view report on the application handles/ids, the corresponding process id and application usage of sys or user temp spaces and db2 does not have one monitoring table function to accomplish this. Users n...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

Re-build synopsis statistics in BLU

Provide a function to rebuild the synopsis table metadata online/offline to improve query performance.
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Evolved dictionary

Affected Product: Db2WoC Evolved dictionary - dictionaries evolve automatically to better quality and data be recompressed without user intervention. GEICO and some other customers like Bank of America (BofA) have been requesting this feature for ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Building better quality dictionaries while doing CTAS in Warehouse SaaS / CP4D SaaS

Product affected: Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Feature affected : CTAS is a Db2 statement - CREATE TABLE AS functionality (CTA) Overview GEICO sees very bad compression as compared to Netezza. Its been observed that currently CTAS uses only the first pa...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Include Prefetch wait time Metrics in monreport.dbsummary() stored procedure

Prefetch wait time numbers are a bit similar to FCM in the sense that they can be really high even in a normal system. Prefetch wait time doesn’t start until an agent attempts to read a page that has already been queued for prefetch – then the clo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Allow DB2 connection to be inherited by a subshell

With the db2 command it is possible to execute a wide variety of DB2 tasks from a shell environment. It is however not possible to use variable substitution in a way that feels natural in a Unix environment. The execution of a shell script starts ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration