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

All ideas

Showing 1951

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Include SYSPACKSTMT.STMT_ID in GET DIAGNOSTICS data

The SQL Standard for GET DIAGNOSTICS includes details about the actual statement being diagnosed - COMMAND_ FUNCTION / _CODE and DYNAMIC_FUNCTION / _CODE. The Db2 implementation includes none of these. Making it, effectively, impossible to identif...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Create user interface for --#SET ACCEPT_RC override

Allow user to specify one or more acceptable SQL return codes in the MIG process prior to the DDL being generated.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mask implicit parameters

We would like the mask to honour any specifications included in it regardless as to whether the parameter is included in the DDL. So, for instance, objects may default to DEFINE YES. The MASK may be setup to change all objects to DEFINE NO. We wou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Scope source objects from objects defined in target

It is not possible to scope source objects from the objects defined in the target version or DDL file. In the 'Specify Compare Target' panel there is an option 4 'Target is from the DB2 Catalog and the objects are automatically selected based on t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration