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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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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
12 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Db2 Pacemaker - HADR - Adding move option in db2cm utility for HADR

Currently, move option in db2cm utility is only applicable for mutufailover configuration and lookinng for the same option for HADR as well. This helps to avoid login to standby instance and issuing takeover manually to trigger the move option. Pa...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Needs more information

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DB2 HADR with Pacemaker: use systemd to gracefully takeover to standby before server shutdown

Using DB2 HADR with Pacemaker. Before a shutdown/boot of the primary server in a cluster (for planned OS maintenance or otherwise), a takeover of the databases should be executed on the standby server. This avoids a forced takeover. We would like ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted
105 VOTE

automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
over 9 years ago in Db2 5 Planned for future release

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 9 Not under consideration

Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 6
125 VOTE

Support of RUNSTATS of range-partitioned tables on single partition

RUNSTATS on range-partitioned tables always runs on allpartitions. If all indexes are partitioned, a RUNSTATS of a singlePartition would be helpful.
over 11 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration