Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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).


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

All ideas

Showing 15317

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined lon

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined long period time within the cluster. For Oracle RAC databases, as long as one instance is up and running, the database is ava...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Add BEFORE and/or AFTER clause to ALTER TABLE

For the ALTER TABLE statement, it's relevant to add an "AFTER ..." OR "BEFORE ..." clause specifying where in the table the new column is to be placed. This statement component exists in DB2 for i and in certain other databases (like Informix and ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

No means to change log file directory for Cognos

Log file locations are under the profiles path. This is not acceptable for our support organization. We can change the cogserver.log, but for the remaining log files, the method to alter this directory is unknown.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New DSNACCOX tablespace reorg threshold

Stored procedure DSNACCOX has thresholds for tablespace unclustered inserts (RRTUnclustInsPct) and page splits from updates (RRTIndRefLimit). These both cause fragmentation. However, there is no threshold for the sum of these two, even though many...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Target to Google BigQuery

Customers are planning to deploy the Data Science Sandbox, Analytic platform on Google Cloud Platform, hence BigQuery as analytic engine. But they are facing challenges to replicate data from on premises database, including DB2, Oracle, .... to ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Table Partition creation auto extension Functionality

Today DB2 doesn’t provide the auto table partition extension Functionality. We would like to have the Functionality available, could you please let us know if this is feasible and if yes how soon it would be available. This is Functionality is ava...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

AWS EFS CSI Driver support

We had built CP4D env on AWS. Once v4.0 release, AWS EFS is not supported. Even other cloud service's NFS storages are still supported. We heard it caused by technical limitation of EFS with NFS protocol, and CSI(Container Storage Interface) has ...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

IDAA CDC password process fails audit

When configuring the Incremental Updates via the configuration console, a human being must know and see the password for the configuration console.In addition to change the configuration console password a human being must navigate thru the panels...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout

JCC driver to recognize STOP / START ACCELERATOR to avoid incorrout: If JCC driver is connected to Db2 for z/OS and queries over this connection gets offloaded to the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA), the queries will return incorrout if STOP ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2