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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).


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Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

We want to cancel all Db2 THREADS with one command in a Db2 Datasharing Member.

Today we must cancel any single thread. During a Db2 migration or shutdown you must cancel the Db2 threads to stop Db2.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

ELIGIBLE WITH FAILBACK

If customers need FAILBACK capability back to Db2 in case SQL has an issue in accelerator, they currently use ENABLE WITH FAILBACK option. However, the routing criteria of ENABLE option includes cost factors calculated by optimizer. Customers want...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Advanced Network compression for DB2 HADR

Advanced data compression in network technique provide a way to convert data into alternate data formats which use less size. These techniques can be helpful to compress data to be transmitted over network at the sending side and then convert back...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Replication 3 Not under consideration

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User level Monitoring of CPD resource usage

As of now there is no monitoring available in the system at the User level. We can see the resource requests/utilization with list of pods however, having more than 100 users on the platform it is hard for us to identify which user is requesting h...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Backup Utility POD image

Hello, At present a CP4D admin ( Namespace Admin) needs to install and run CPD-CLI on a Virtual machine/Laptop in-order for his/her to run the OADP back-up. In an Enterprise world, this doesn't provide best Operation efficiency as there would be m...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration