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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.

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.

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Allow Optional CHAR-to-VARCHAR Conversion in DataGate to Preserve Application Transparency between Db2 for z/OS and Db2 LUW

When replicating data from Db2 for z/OS (EBCDIC) to Db2 LUW (UTF-8), DataGate increases the length of CHAR columns to accommodate Unicode expansion. While this behavior is understandable from a data integrity perspective, it can introduce applicat...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
4 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

Add Subscription Level Replication Statistics to the Product Functionality

In case of high QReplication workload its sometimes necessary to determine the causing table / subscription of this workload fast and efficient for Problem determination . Currently workload Statistics are implemented at an Queue level (in Table I...

Improve configuration guidance and diagnostic feedback for Workflow and Data Accountability

Dear team, Description Current behavior When configuring Data Accountability and Workflow features in Planning Analytics Workspace, several UI actions may remain disabled without providing any explanation to the user. Examples include: Data Acco...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Inherit COMPRESS attribute from base table space partition for XML table spaces

We figured out that Db2 only uses the top level or table sace COMPRESS attribute for the DDL of the XML table space instead of using the partition level COMPRESS attribute.Because we have large XML table spaces we want them to be compressed. XML p...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Near-term history data is not carried forward to V6.1

We have upgraded Omegamon for DB2 from 5.5 to Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1 but we lost near term history data of V5.5 once the Omegamon is in V6.1 and started to build from there . I understand that in 6.1.0, history datasets are formatted at startup...

JWT-based authentication for on-prem Db2 LUW using Microsoft Entra ID, with the Db2 Data Server Client retrieving the token from the Microsoft IDP.

Provide native JWT/OIDC token-based authentication support for Db2 LUW on-premises, including modern Authorization Code Flow with PKCE and token validation. Extend the Full OIDC Flow capability by enabling the Db2 Data Server Client to natively in...
17 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Bypass RLF (Resource Limit Facility) Predictive/Reactive Governor Checks for SELECT Queries Explicitly Routed to IDAA from Db2 z/OS via SET CURRENT QUERY ACCELERATION = ALL

Summary of Current Behavior: On Db2 for z/OS, the Resource Limit Facility (RLF) governs SQL by enforcing cost based thresholds using ASU time. When a SELECT statement's estimated resource consumption exceeds the defined RLF limit, Db2 either preve...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

can we create something that limits the number of jobs in a project within next gen Datastage ?

A per-project job limit gives admins governance and cost control over Next Gen DataStage environments.
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted