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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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Can we get timestamp, DBNAME from archive log

Usually our Db2 backs up to storage server or natively. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the storage server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

To monitor system resource usage at database level in a pureScale environment

All current monitoring facilities can not meet customer requirements to monitor overall system resource consumed for a specific database, in a database consolidation scenario of pureScale. PMR#: TS000078803
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Nickname using session_user

Nicknames ignores the permissions of the session_user, they just check the permissions of the connect user. In our Db2 Security System we connect with an CONNECT_USER to the database.After an successfull Connection the connect user does an SET S...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 3 Delivered

Operation guarantee for DB2 v11.1 Federation Server

System DB2 v11.1 Federation ServerRequest: Provide operation guarantee for Oracle NET client 12.2.0.1 for Data Source Oracle Database 11gR2(11.2.0.3) URL: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049211 ---------------------12 One of th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration