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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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Provide support for deploying Db2 Warehouse under Rancher K8

Currently we deploy Db2 Warehouse in Openshift. It would be useful to support other implementations as well like Rancher K8.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Allow start RESTORE on non-catalog db-partitions earlier

In a Multi-Partitioned databases, we currently need to restore each database partition individually, but, not all of them can be made in parallel. Catalog Partition must be restored first. and it must complete before we can start restoring the rem...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Deferred table creation

Don't allocate extents for empty tables (and no extent for index and lobs) like on Db2 z/OS.Allow SELECT (returns 0 rows), RUNSTATS, ... and don't materizalize until first row insert (or LOAD).
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Not under consideration

Request for OpenAPI Support in Db2 REST API Functionality

Hi team,We would like to formally request that the REST API functionality in IBM Db2 be enhanced to support the OpenAPI standard.We currently have a client who intends to develop REST APIs directly from Db2 and publish them in enterprise API catal...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW on Linux should support WEKA Filesystem

DB2 LUW (on Linux) should support the Weka Filesystem. https://www.weka.io/resources/white-papers/wekaio-architectural-whitepaper The WekaFS is available on Amazon Cloud (AWS) and allows snapshot functionality (during suspend I/O) which is current...
over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Capability of choosing a character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)

Users created and are running the database with a character set of "S-JIS" at on-premise DB2 environment. They'd like to migrate DB2 on-premise into Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)But users can NOT select the character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS. If they...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
about 6 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Provide UPSERT avoiding DUPREC

While MERGE can be used to emulate UPSERT, it is possible that MERGE fails with DUPREC if 2 UPSERTs implemented using MERGE try to INSERT the same row.The condition might be false and both try to INSERT. One succeeds and the other fails with DUPRE...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Submitted

Tracking refactored code blocks as they are sliced in refactoring assistant

When slicing code blocks in the Refactoring Assistant, it would be helpful if there was some tracking so that the user knows what has been sliced previously. Even if this tracking is just for the current session or workbook, this would be helpful....
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Add option in db2look to not extract LBAC every time

All of the LBAC definitions are extracted and printed every time the -e option is specified. If one just wants the DDL for a single table, all of the LBAC definitions are printed, even if that table has nothing to do with LBAC. A -nolbac option wo...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration