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 1398

IBM Data Studion needs extport/Extract from a select statement

Many people use IBM Data Studio to manage DB2 database. You can currently right click on a table and extract/export a tables contents. You cananot do the same using a select statement to say filter records or join tables for the export. Today peop...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Config of DB2 Federated Servers without CATALOG

Currently the CREATE SERVER for Db2 family data sources relies on a node and database having been catalogued using the CATALOG NODE and CATALOG DATABASE commands. It would be better if the host / port / location could be specified rather than the ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX SQLSERVER SUPPORT IN IDA

Clustered Columnstore/Rawstore Index feature is not present in IDA for the latest version. We are useing them for our data vaults, facts and dimensions were applicable but we can't used IDA for their specification.
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Modify uninstallSAM to allow for forced removal

Unsuccessful use of uninstallSAM to remove TSAMP component RPMs after disk storage loss/corruption of path /usr/sbin/rsct
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

In IDA, enhance the graphic rectangle functionality

Currently, the rectangle symbol is limited. Text can only be aligned Left-Middle-Right. Also, some other symbols fall "behind" the rectangle when it is moved to the very back of the order, specifically dependency symbols.
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

External Table handle CRLF in data

The EXTERNAL TABLE capability of DB2 Warehouse cannot handle CSV files that contain CRLF characters in the data when the record delimiter is also CRLF. This is a very common, RFC4180 compliant format (see 2.6) that is produced when saving as CSV f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration