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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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:


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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,


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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,

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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.

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    Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

    Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    WCA PL/1 to Java support

    WCA PL/1 to Java.
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 4

    Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

    The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

    The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

    When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Review automatic prefetch

    This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

    Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    dmctop for zLinux

    We have several Db2 LUW running on zLinux. Because dmctop is not compatible with zLinux, we're still using db2top but would like to explore new functionalities/features offered in dmctop. Just to clarify: Currently, dmctop does not work on zLinux ...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

    Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

    For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
    over 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

    Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

    We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

    Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

    It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

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