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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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ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE STOP

Currently, ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE can be augmented with two optional clauses: ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE SUSPEND ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE RESUME We need ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE CANCEL or ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE STOP...
about 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Debezium Connector for DB2 on z/OS (Apache Kafka)

My customer Rewe wants to use his DB2 data from z/OS for Data Mesh via Apache Kafka in a PostgreSQL database in AWS for his online shop. Red Hat has developed the Debezium connector, which is compatible with DB2 on Linux, but not with DB2 on z/OS ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Under review

Support settings for DEX oidc upstream connector in dashboard

Setting up ADDI/DEX with oidc as upstream connector instead of ldap to support smartcard logon thru external provider is working as excpected. But configuration needs to be done directly in the dex.conf file instead of the dashboard. This means th...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 2 Under review

DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
about 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

calling sql procedure in triggers in DB2 DPF

in db2 luw with the dpf feature enabled, we're facing with 2 problems when using some statements or calling procedures in triggers : calling a sql compiled procedure (containing DDL statements) doesn't work ; executing DDL statements inside the tr...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Submitted