Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Db2

Providing IBM Managed Db2 Genius Hub server without incurring additional resources for customer

For customers that already invested in purchasing/modernization of IBM Db2 AI licenses, it will require additional infrastructure resources/costs to install IBM Db2 Genius Hub (and its Genius Hub repository). While there is IBM Managed for AI Infe...
7 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Expose column-level CCSID metadata in DbDataReader and support automatic/configurable CCSID 65535 conversion in the IBM .NET provider for Db2 on i.

Why is it useful? In modern enterprise architectures, applications are often deployed as multi-tenant or multi-company systems connecting to IBM i. In these environments, identical tables and columns across different company schemas/libraries may ...
8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Submitted

Do not slow down database implementation for system admininstrator to configure soft ulimit when hard ulimit is unlimited

db2 runs into ulimit error when it encounters the soft limit, while there is plenty of room to go before the hard limit. Adjust the limit to the hard limit at process start or dynamically during run and continue without error and having to stop th...
13 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

REORG on Table with Vectorindex (SQL0270N Reason Code 137)

Vector functionality is intended to extend an existing table. To ensure queries remain fast, the new vector index should also be utilized. However, it is currently impossible to perform a REORG on the table as long as the index exists. Please impl...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

CREATE PROCEDURE add new SQL SECURITY keyword

Hi Team, I would like the "CREATE PROCEDURE" functionality to be enhanced with a SQL SECURITY keyword. Currently it is only possible with the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION = <dbadm-user> in a stored procedure to let users execute the specific SQ...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse Submitted

More control over WLM for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud

We are running a large data warehouse in the IBM Cloud for the Your Learning application. We sometimes struggle with queries which are put into Queued status. We would like to have more control over the WLM in order to manage our workload.
22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Submitted

Speed up db2ckbkp

We check each backup image and with the V 12.1 ITP has speed up the backup elapsed time, however db2ckbkp is still running through the images sequentially. We validate each backup, however db2ckbkp takes longer than the backup itself.
22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

change default value for audit_buf_sz to none zero

AUDIT_BUF_SZ is 0 by default. When it's 0 and combined with a very busy Db2 database and poor disk performance for the audit log destination, the performance impact of auditing can be significant. We want this parameter to be a small none zero val...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

An AI-driven Oracle-to-Db2 Migration Copilot that enables organizations to move mission-critical databases to IBM Cloud faster, safer, and with predictable costs.

Organizations migrating databases from Oracle to IBM Cloud often face challenges in schema conversion, stored procedure migration, performance tuning, dependency analysis, and cost estimation.Develop an AI-powered Db2 Cloud Migration Copilot withi...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Tenant support for SQL/QReplication as source and target

The Db2 tenant concept is introduced in IBM Db2 12.1 and define an isolated, unique namespace for user-defined objects within a single database. It sits between the database instance and schema levels, allowing multiple independent groups or appli...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted