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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    On the Web Console for Cloud version allow for calendar functionality for Auto pause and shutdown

    Currently the auto pause is either ON or OFF. HoweverNHS scotland want to make auto pause at different times of the day but have different behaviour for Monday to Friday with different parameters at the weekend. Hence a calendar function for speci...
    over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

    Supporting access to backup log files on nzsaas from nzcli

    It is useful to monitor the backup progress, investigate delays in backup durations and any potential failures etc. This way, administrators of the Netezza environment in Sicoob will continue to be able to try to solve these problems, among others...
    5 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

    SQLDI Install Enhancements

    The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
    6 months ago in IBM SQL Data Insights 0 Submitted

    Improve restore logs for long deletes

    When a huge delete is part of a restore the system can take multiple hours on this step but the logs show that deletion is already done Example: 2026-02-09 12:20:52.189783 CET (3649905) Info: Applying deleted rows2026-02-09 12:20:52.189859 CET (36...
    7 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

    Logs Collection for Support

    Having an easy way to collect logs on the Concerto for troubleshooting without logging on to the pods would be beneficial. Maybe having some basic options on webconsole would help.
    about 6 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

    Enhanced host monitoring

    On previous generation MAKO20 system, we were able to monitor the HOST machine resources (CPU, MEMORY, FABRIC, DISK) by using NZ_SYSUTIL_HISTORY table provided out of the box. On new generation of the system (IPS), we can still do it, but the HOST...
    over 6 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

    Netezza and Unity Catalog

    Customer is currently using Databricks for data processing and storing outcomes as delta tables.They aim to expose these tables and views into Netezza for further processing.They are utilizing Unity Catalog for metadata management, and they want t...
    over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Planned for future release

    Handling multiple locations of backups

    Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
    9 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

    Granularity for backup

    Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
    about 6 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

    Ability to specify NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations

    With multiple CP4D appliances, and multiple NetBackup Media Server Clusters, it would be beneficial to be able to specify the NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations to match that of the most local NetBackup copy. For instance, CP4D applianc...
    over 6 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

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