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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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Distribute Db2 Connect “unlimited” license artefacts in a huge environment via z/OS or Db2 for z/OS tooling instead of db2connectactivate.sh

The documented way to “install” a Db2 Connect unlimited license in a Db2 for z/OS system or data sharing group is db2connectactivate.sh. To activate Db2 Connect unlimited for a huge number of Db2 for z/OS systems, a central LUW (or USS) instance w...
8 months ago in Db2 2 Under review

Decouple REORG (after REORG PENDING) and index rebuild of not enforcing indexes

When a table goes into REORG PENDING state the OFFLINE REORG needed not only runs the reorg but also rebuilds the indexes and the table stays unavailable for the whole time of all operations. Best scenario would be if the table becomes read access...
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Getting the Accessplans at the Routine level for the Database LUW

Db2 performance issues in one of the major area to look for, Whenever there is performance issue in the database, one of the major point we look is for the queries how they are behaving in the database. Db2 LUW provides lot of options to get the a...
about 7 years ago in Db2 29 Not under consideration

An AI-driven Oracle-to-Db2 Migration Copilot that enables organizations to move mission-critical databases to IBM Cloud faster, safer, and with predictable costs.

Organizations migrating databases from Oracle to IBM Cloud often face challenges in schema conversion, stored procedure migration, performance tuning, dependency analysis, and cost estimation.Develop an AI-powered Db2 Cloud Migration Copilot withi...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 6 Planned for future release

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration