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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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dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
about 2 years ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Enhancement Request for Application-Level Encryption of Sensitive PII Data in IBM Identity Insight Database (DB2)

We currently use IBM Identity Insight for Galactic ID generation, which serves as a unique identifier for our customers. At present, customer data within Identity Insight is stored in a DB2 database as unencrypted (plain-text) values. To align wit...
about 1 month ago in Identity Insight 0 Submitted

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about 1 month ago in Identity Insight 0 Submitted

Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Planned for future release

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
almost 3 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Add support for MQ writer subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

The IBM Manta IFPC scanner supports MQ Reader. But the subtype MQ writer is not supported. Any workflow that writes into a queue fails and nothing is loaded in the repository.
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Add support for DB2zOS subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

DB2 is supported by the IFPC scanner. But the DB2zOS subtype is not supported. As a result, the workflow fails containing this type fails and does not load anything in the Manta repository. This is a major problem for a lot of systems that have DB...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted
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Method for downgrading FixPack level of Db2 pureScale

In order to downgrade FP level of pureScale, uninstall the product, re-install and recovery from backup are needed.This is time consuming and cannot be done online.Customer want some easy FP fallback method.Most customer plan to FP upgrade with so...
over 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration