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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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Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
9 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
14 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

CDC Agent support HA/cluster by product itself.

In banking production environment, CDC agent are often across multi platform for different database, and CDC HA solution have to depend on different technology tightly with OS and different OS version, such as AIX, Linux. and the HA stack is often...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

timstamp_jcf_is_commit_timestamp equivalient in CDC z/OS?

We have a usecase for an application that need a DB2 commit timestamp to be sent out as a part of the payload to a target Oracle Database from Db2 Source system. Currently the parm timstamp_jcf_is_commit_timestamp is only available in DB2 remote s...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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 6 years ago in Db2 29 Not under consideration
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Restricted access at a database level quiesce to prevent database activation in order to perform exclusive access operations like offline backup/restore in a multi database instance.

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In a multi database system especially when running applications on platforms like OpenShift or even application servers like WAS where applications reconnect very fast, it becomes very hard or even impossible to get exclusive access to a single da...
11 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered