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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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Compact EXPLAIN report

SQLPA report provide all info once, like 1) Index or Tablespace scan 2) Used Index name and its key columns, 3) All alternate indexes with key columns etc. I'd like to see the access path used only at the initial report, and when I am not satisfie...
8 days ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Revert ANLPQBR1 panel to table based version in SQLPA 5.1

The ANLPQBR1 panel has been changed from to table version (SQLPA 5.1) to a one-line-per-screen version (SQLPA 5.2). This makes it near impossible to work through an access-path, using the typical PLAN_TABLE 'table format' which has been around for...
3 months ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Under review

Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison for IBM SQL Data Insights Pro

I propose adding an Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison capability to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro to help organizations manage complex AI-powered data investigations more efficiently and systematically. This enhancement would provid...
21 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Add automated data drift detection to SQL Data Insights Pro that alerts users when underlying column/table data has shifted beyond a configurable threshold (e.g., 5–10%), signaling that the AI model needs retraining.

SQL DI Pro supports incremental retraining but has no built-in signal for when retraining is needed. As source data shifts — new segments, changing transaction patterns — embeddings can go stale with no warning to the user.Requesting a data drift ...
2 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Support index on expressions for virtual indexes

During the SQL performance tuning for a query having a scalar function (lower case) coded in it, DB2 SQLPA tool was checked to see if there is an option to create a virtual index but since there is no way of creating it in the current version, use...
over 1 year ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Integrate zAI analysis to use SQL-DI

SQL-DI is great at finding commonalties, similarities and possibly predicting values, It might be a good idea to feed zAI collected data into SQL-DI to assess the calculated values and choose and compare access paths chosen with host variable valu...
10 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
almost 6 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for Python3.8 with IBM LSF Python API

Support for Python3.8 with IBM LSF Python API
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 2 Functionality already exists

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration