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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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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...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

Enable IS NOT NULL index fragment elimination in IDS14

We were advised in TS021736198 "Partial index query plan change" to exclude NULL values from being indexed by having them in the REMAINDER partition with INDEX OFF. That fixed query plans on other values, and nested loop joins worked again, but we...
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Native built-in string similarity and edit-distance functions for Db2 LUW (Teradata TD_StringSimilarity / EDITDISTANCE equivalents)

Db2 LUW has no built-in way to measure how similar two strings are. The only related functions are SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE. These are phonetic, English-centric and ASCII-only. Customers who need fuzzy matching, such as deduplication, customer or en...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Add node search functionality to SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio

Currently, SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio / Cloud Pak for Data does not provide the node search functionality available in the legacy SPSS Modeler. In the legacy version, users can search for nodes within a stream using the Search tab, for example,...
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Support selecting specific SPSS Modeler flow versions in jobs and promotions

SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio / Cloud Pak for Data supports creating versions of flows, but users cannot select a specific saved version when configuring jobs or promoting flows to deployment spaces. For other asset types, such as Jupyter notebook...
about 20 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Studio (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted

Align automatic startup limit with the supported number of Db2 Audit Policies

With Db2 13 FL506, the number of audit policies that can be defined has increased to 64. However, the number of audit policies that can be automatically started using DB2START='Y' remains limited to 8. This creates an unnecessary operational restr...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable Real Time Statistics to be written while REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE is running

When a REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility is running, RTS collection for the affected object can be interrupted until the utility completes. For large tablespaces and indexes, online REORGs may run for many hours or even days, resulting in si...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ADO.NET Driver Option - Generate benign DML statement when beginning a transaction

A Driver level feature flag to be introduced as DEFAULT=FALSE; when set to TRUE will automatically execute a query like “select 1 from dual” or select 1; which just does a round trip.  Helps with .Net client code by eliminating requirement fo...
about 12 hours ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Enable direct, recovery-safe LOAD data streaming between Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to eliminate shared NFS/SAN copy-image dependencies, reduce tablespace Pending conditions, and improve bulk-load reliability and standby availability.

1. Your Idea Enable direct, recovery-safe LOAD data streaming between Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to eliminate shared NFS/SAN copy-image dependencies, reduce tablespace Pending conditions, and improve bulk-load reliability and standby avail...
about 16 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Enable coordinated local index builds on Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to reduce index-related log flooding, minimize replication lag, improve standby replay performance, and maintain recovery and takeover readiness.

1. Your Idea Enable coordinated local index builds on Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to reduce index-related log flooding, minimize replication lag, improve standby replay performance, and maintain recovery and takeover readiness. 2. Descripti...
about 16 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted