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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    DSM HADR data collection is missing Primary_member_host information on repository database

    View - healthmetrics.HADR_STATS contains Db2 HADR Standby host details but does not contain primary member host details. The details is required to pinpoint the active side/primary when the DSM connection is setup using alternate client reroute pr...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

    Support for HP NS COBOL

    CVS has code written in HP NS COBOL. There is very poor understanding of this code. If Watsonx Code Assistant for z could "handle" this code, it would be of TREMENDOUS benefit to CVS (and anyone else who has HP NS COBOL). While we know that -- at ...
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Not under consideration

    Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

    Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

    Federation support for Transient Schema

    Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

    Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

    Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

    Update the DB2 LUW Client Drivers to support Windows Server Core docker images

    The IBM DB2 client driver package does not work on window server core images. See the included Dockerfiles. Dockerfile-servercore uses the aspnet 4.8 base image which is based on windowsservercore-ltsc2022 docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/mic...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

    NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

    [Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

    For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

    Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
    over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

    The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    built-in and OLAP functions are not stored in the catalogs hence SPSS modeller is facing challenges fetching

    Incompatibility between using Netezza and Db2 products. Both UDFs (User Defined Function) and built-in functions and OLAPs are available in the case of Netezza, but in the case of IIAS (IBM Integrated Analytics System) / Db2 only UDF is available ...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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