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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 ...
about 17 hours 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...
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 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 ...
1 day ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

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...
6 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence 0 Under review

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...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

Commission-Judge Disclosure Vacatur Record

PROBLEM: Army Col. James L. Pohl, chief judge of the Guantanamo military commissions, presided over the 9/11 case and the USS Cole case (Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri). On July 10, 2014 he "undetailed" himself from the al-Nashiri case — his stated reaso...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Fat Leonard Bribery Conviction Register

PROBLEM: Leonard Glenn Francis, president of Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia, bribed scores of U.S. Navy officials with cash, prostitutes, and luxury travel in exchange for classified ship-movement information and for steering ships to G...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

enhancement request to support -tail option from runtime API

currently for Datastage flow, there is a limitation on the number of lines that can be viewed.- tail option -- cpdctl must be able to add support by using the tail log api, which supports start and end indices for getting log lines between those i...
about 3 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server 0 Submitted

Vendor-Credential Abuse Audit Record

PROBLEM: On October 15, 2026, a stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup application credential was used from a hosting-provider address to obtain Microsoft Graph tokens in customer Microsoft 365 tenants — bypassing interactive sign-in and MFA entirely, be...
about 3 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted