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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.

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Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

I would like to have Db2 11.5.5.1 supported in a Power10 environment on AIX Ver. 7.2 TL5 SP2.

In order to implement Power10, the customer plans to migrate their current AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 environment to the new Power10 environment. However, their current version of Db2, version 11.5.5.1, is not supported, so they would like to have it support...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Oracle stored procedure support with DRDA-passthrough

We need to have support for Oracle Stored procedure and sequence using DRDA-passthrough. At the moment we have programs running on z/Os that are using Oracle client that is out of support and will no longer be working with the latest Oracle releas...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Not under consideration

Remote storage and datalake tables for Db2 on AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. Many large customers have their Db2 workloads on Power/AIX, benefitting from the platform. To keep Db2 as core component of lakehouse architectu...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

More informative PL SQL compiling output

db2 -td@ -vf sqlpl4ibm.sql CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST4IBM ()LANGUAGE SQLREADS SQL DATANO EXTERNAL ACTIONBEGIN DECLARE var_num_records INT DEFAULT -1; DECLARE var_unused_int INT DEFAULT -1; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO var_num_records FROM db2luw1.em...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication

The Problem: We have enterprise wide roll out of active directory authentication and Currently Jgate does not support it. Proposed solutions: Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication The Benefits/Value: We will have all the bene...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration