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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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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

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

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

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

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

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Cognos consuming separated database

It Should be interesting to make Cognos a possibility to consume a copy of the main database so it not conflicts with the openpages application that consumes the same database Therefore, large Cognos reports could not degrade the Openpages applica...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

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

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration