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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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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,


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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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Support Redirected Recovery from Systems Level Backups in Recovery Expert

As a companion idea to the support of redirected recoveries from System Level Backups (SLB's) by the IBM RECOVER utility that I have raised under - IBM Ideas can Recovery Expert or Recovery Expert Pro be enhanced to provide this functionality as a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Recovery Expert to support the building of FlashCopy Image Copies from SLB's

Currently we cannot recover individual tablespaces from an SLB (System Level Backup) to a new tablespace (redirected recover) using either the RECOVER utility or Recovery Expert. We can produce a normal Image Copy from the SLB using Recovery Exper...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

SQL Tuning Services - Default SCHEMA

In SQL Tuning Services - without tuning profiles - provide a way to specify a default SCHEMA used to identify the Explain Tables used - at the SQL Tuning Server level or Db2 subsystem level. This could be overridden using the SQL Tuning Options in...
7 months ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

High Availability for Db2 Tuning Services

Db2 Tuning services is currently a standalone started task. We will be integrating Tuning Services into a production operational system, to provide guardrails for AI generated queries against operational data stores. As it will form part of an ope...
5 months ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

No description provided
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provisioning rule required to remove KEY LABELS for test instances

Devops Experience applications are created from a production, or like-production source. In production we use pervasive encryption, and so some tables have a KEY LABEL defined and make use of ICSF and data encryotion. In test environments we do no...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1

Enhancements for Fast Apply

We are new to IBM Fast Apply and have been using a competitor product. With IBM we are experiencing some pain points and the tool is frankly not up to standards with what we purchased. HIGH priority!
over 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration