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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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Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

Implement multiple warnings prior to altering the database schema in the system setup section. Additionally, provide the capability to revert to the previous database schema, enabling users to retrieve prior evaluations.

Utility: The significance lies in the fact that modifying the schema currently results in the loss of all prior evaluations, without an option for retrieval. This enhancement aims to safeguard time and projects from potential loss, particularly in...
over 1 year ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

onaudit for informix user - exclude system databases from the audit trail

Currently, our audit tool is configured to monitor DDL and DML actions specifically for the user "Informix." This setup ensures that our audit report contains only the information necessary for business purposes. However, it is also recording acti...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

proactive messages of objects ??% full or 'follow-up objects free space' function inside Db2

Follow up TS and XS limits in Db2 z/OS is not an easy job. The last 6 months, we coped issues with partitioned indexes full. This were partitioned bases 'temporarily session' tables for applications, whereby the not active partition is cleaned up ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

overrule the automatic CPU parallelism calculation of LOAD apart from command line

LOAD does an automatic CPU parallelism calculation, if not explicitly specified in the command by the user.To gain max performance, LOAD assumes, it is the only LOAD (and only application) running on the system and consumes nearly all available CP...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Not under consideration

Add support for APPL_ID in CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT for LUW

In Db2 for z/OS the CREATE TRUSTED CONTEXT allows for the inclusion of JOBNAME.There is currently no equivalent in the Db2 LUW version as of 12.1. I would like to suggest that APPL_ID be added in Db2 LUW to give a similar functionality. This w...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

Support of SAP HANA as data source

Due to the current policy of SAP all customers are forced to migrate their current SAP systems to SAP HANA in the short or long term .If they use their SAP Databases as IBM InfoSphere Data Replication sources, the migrated systems won't be support...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

from IBM Cloud, allow Bursting to Save Output to customer's file system

CA Cloud does not currently support report bursting to save output onto any file systems. Understand it could not be saved onto the cloud servers, but there is a VPN connection to the customer's environment (source databases), please leverage that...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered