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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    Feature of TERRITORY Improvement Request for Db2 on IBM Cloud

    When the service is deployed, the territory is automatically set to US, which prevents them from using the service as intended. Any workaround that would allow setting the territory to Japan is required by the end of April. Alternatively, if there...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

    Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

    Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Code Explain should support macros

    Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

    Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

    Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

    WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...
    8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

    Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

    Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

    We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

    There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

    Restore database to another Db2 server with different endianness

    My customer is using RHEL Big Endian Linux on PPC and Db2 10.5 which is end of support April 30, 2020. They have no option but to migrate to RHEL Little Endian. They cannot simply backup and restore the database and are looking at using Db2move wh...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    DMC requirement for improved reporting of metric data for PureScale members

    In the current DMC release, DMC aggregates resource usage (for example, CPU) for all members of PureScale connections. The request is to improve DMC to show monitoring metrics values per member with the ability to drill down per database connectio...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Planned for future release

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