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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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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 ...
2 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

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...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 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 ...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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 ...
3 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to SYSIBM.ADMIN_EXPLAIN_MAINT Stored Procedure

The ADMIN_EXPLAIN_MAINT STP is currently one of IBMs solutions for large scale recreation/maintenance of explain tables. Actions like "CREATE", "DROP AND CREATE" or "STANDARDIZE_AND_CREATE" are currently using a predetermined format for the naming...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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...
7 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence 0 Under review

Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

CISS-Selective 3D-Printed Porous Heavy-Metal Capture Scaffolds

PROBLEM: A printed porous scaffold can place chiral biosorbent along designed flow paths, yet printing and functionalisation can disorder chiral groups or hide them inside pores where water rarely reaches. Capture depends on both pore architecture...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CISS-Aware Electrospun Monitoring Mats and Compliance Data

PROBLEM: Electrospun monitoring mats with chiral groups change as fibers swell, foul, or are regenerated, and those changes can alter both binding and any spin-selective readout behind a reading. A dataset that stores only concentrations cannot sh...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
about 1 hour ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted