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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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Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Repair DBD Utility wont abend with dump while trigger found on a none existing table

regular running check repair DBD on systems. repair dbd abends when a database was found with triggers pointing on tables objects that does not existist any longer.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LSF 10.x Docker integration: JOB_STARTER runs as root and does 'docker run -user <XXX>'

From: Khalid Ahmed Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 12:23 PMTo: "Miller, Michael D" Cc: John Toppa , Frank N Lee Subject: Re: Fw: Follow up items Hi Michael, It was nice meeting with you last week in Groton. We are glad to work with you to addres...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

New Access Type to Support Table Changes

Problem statement/ pain point: When making changes to Db2 tables there are times when you need to put the table space into a read only status to prevent update from occurring but allow the users the most time with the table being changed. The prob...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

VLDB - 358 Eliminate the need to define a set number of 32k and 4k tablespaces in the work file database

Instead of defining a set number of 4k and 32k tablespaces, it would simplify the process if we could allocate a set amount of space to the work database and allow DB2 to dynamically allocate the tablespaces as needed. As the page size requirement...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[RESEARCH] Authentication - Single Sign On - Active Directory

Provide MS - Active Directory and Kerberos authentication mechanism in PAC to allow seamless integration with company-wide systems. Every modern company uses AD for authentication with the correct roles and groups certain set of users should be al...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Temporal Database for DB2 Configuration parameters and catalog information

With the New Feature of Temporal Database , It may be possible to keep System Configuration information - like Instance ,configuration Database configuration , along with snapshot information if possible for performace audit , analysis etc
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration