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

Db2

Showing 1389 of 15645

WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias

Would be very userfull to wite WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias. Very usefull for developers who are using OLAP Functions or other operations on column.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Add a db2pd option to monitor rollbacks

Add the abiity to monitor rollbacks via db2pd
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Support of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for automated HADR(with TSA)

Customers are able to deploy a pair of virtual machines(VMs) from the Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and configure a Db2 HADR database pair between the two VMs. They can then furthermore configure HADR automation with TSA via the db2haicu utility. The...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Authentication Keys Obfuscation When CLP Echoes External Table Queries with Object Storage

When an external table query involving either S3 or SWIFT options is executed, and the output echoed to the terminal (either via a sql script, or in interactive mode), the authentication keys are also displayed along with the contents of the query...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 Federation to support LOBs as remote procedure parameters

Currently LOBs are not supported as an input/output parameters for a remote stored procedure in Oracle via federation. This creates a limitation of 32k (VARCHAR2) at the moment. It would be useful to pass larger strings or XML and be able to map t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Shell scripts to perform command line operations

We are looking for shell scripts to perform operations such as Add databases to monitoring Update collection ID Update password for collection ID Above were already there in DSM.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration