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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Content selector length in Workspace

when the book names are long, in the top bar to switch between tabs the names are cut and some dots are showed (attached an example) Ideally we would like to have the ability to change the lenght of the navigation area in the bar to allow to see f...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

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...
about 7 hours ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
17 days ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Under review

Implicit TS/IX Objects - Need DDL capability, ALT on IX

Need the ability to enter DDL command and get the DDL. Also ALT command needs to work on implicit IX.
1 day ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Under review

Add support for GRANT ROLE to AUTHID.

In DB2 for z/OS I am allowed to CREATE ROLE, GRANT priviledges to ROLE but I can't GRANT that role to a USERID. Seems something is broke to me. What are ROLES good for if I can't assign a user or group of users to that role.
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review