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

Db2

Showing 1393

DMC DB2 Authorization for depricated SNAP Views

To use all monitor functions from the DMC the user that connected to the database that will be monitored, must have a lot of grants to funktions , views and tables. That is totaly managed in the DB2 System. But additionaly some functions such as S...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Kubernetes Operater for Hosting

There currently is an operator to deploy DB2 in Kubernetes. However, the Mange Console has to be hosted separately. It would be very helpful to have an operator that will also deploy the management console.
3 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Request for enhancement of ACR when one db2 member is in the progress of DB ACTIVATE.

If one member is failed , the applications heading to the failed member should be automatically rerouted to another member in any situation. But, when DB-ACTIVATE is in progress, automatic connection reroute function is not available. So, it shoul...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Sparse Index - sub select in where condition

The Where possibility in the Sparse Index is great. To get more flexibility it would be great if you include the possibility to use the sub select in the where condition. This can replace fixed values. Thanks.
3 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

IBM Verify Device Deletion (QR/FIDO) Reason Capture

This idea is for ISVA 10.0.7 , the IAM solution does not provide the feasibility of capturing the reasons for deletion of details . This function is important form an audit and security .
3 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Functionality already exists

Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
6 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted