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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We request a feature enhancement for Db2 pureScale that enables the CF memory allocation (CF_DB_MEM_SZ) to be increased online, without being constrained by the maximum Group Buffer Pool (GBP) size and without requiring a database shutdown or restart.

The customer has been running Db2 pureScale continuously online for more than 600 days, and non-disruptive operation is a critical requirement. In this environment, it was identified that the Group Buffer Pool (GBP) capacity was insufficient. The ...
4 days ago in Db2 / pureScale Submitted

We need something like MODIFY RECOVERY INDEXSPACE db.ixsp

We do FlashCopies for index spaces due to recovery reasons. Some terms are also included. -We want to keep these FlashCopies only for the case of RECOVER to current. -We also do not do sequential image copies via COPYTOCOPY. -We want to keep only ...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Improved rollforward recovery with loadcopy for different database names

Enhance the --dbname logarchopt configuration parameter so that it applies universally across all log archive methods (e.g. COS/DISK) and extends to cover LOAD COPY image retrievals. This will provide a standardized, single-point override for all ...
4 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Future consideration

Enable usage of db2move copy as external refresh tool when mirroring

IBM CDC (IBM Infosphere Data Replication) External Refresh currently requires the export and import phases to be clearly separated so that the external unload can be marked between them. The documented workflow is: Run dmmarkexternalunloadstart s...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Allow data module security filters to reference tables from other schemas and/or support custom SQL

In Cognos Analytics data modules, the Set data security dialog only lets you reference tables in the same schema as the secured table, and it has no custom SQL option or support to show other schema's tables. When the security table is in a differ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Other Submitted

Passing cell context to AI Agent in Applications & Plans

In Planning Analytics Workspace you can setup a custom watsonx Orchestrate agent for agentic chat known as (IBM Planning Analytics Agent) and when you have a dashboard open (dashboard perspective) you can chat with the agent it can pick up the con...
about 4 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

PAW Local: Provide UI-based management and recovery of Environment Administrator privileges

Dear team, Description Currently, in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Local, promoting an existing PAW Administrator to an Environment Administrator requires access to the PAW server and the execution of a command-line utility (changeUserRoleToA...
about 20 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improve Db2 Reads on Standby with use of different service or port for connections

The current implementation of reads on standby provides at least two different scenarios where connections intended for either the primary or the standby could end up on the wrong database. One is if an application is incorrectly configured with t...
1 day ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Delay Reads on Standby Enablement on Takeover

Since Db2 does not use different services when connecting to a primary or reads on standby enabled standby, it is possible for connections intended for the primary to end up on the standby database. This scenario occurs when using any sort of fron...
1 day ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Add View Asset Type Filtering and Export Capabilities in Catalog Search

there is currently no effective way to retrieve and export a complete list of these assets. Although the asset type is visible in the user interface, View is not available as a filtering option: Catalog search: users cannot filter the results to...
8 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence Under review

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