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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    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 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

    Need the feature to Impersonate User in Cognos to replicate user specific issues

    Need the option to impersonate user in cognos. We need this feature to replicate user specific issues by logging in as user and quickly identifying and tracking the issues
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

    Allow to customize the welcome message & starter prompt "subtitles"

    It seems this is not possible, only the welcome message and tile headers can be set in the builder UI
    3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

    Support of SAP HANA as data source

    Due to the current policy of SAP all customers are forced to migrate their current SAP systems to SAP HANA in the short or long term .If they use their SAP Databases as IBM InfoSphere Data Replication sources, the migrated systems won't be support...
    about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

    Empty date prompt

    At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

    As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
    about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

    Add new Turbo Integrator function that returns current TM1 instance name

    Currently, there is no function within Turbo Integrator that returns the name of a TM1 instance when called. TM1 modelers have to either store the instance name in a cube or in a flat file and retrieve at run time. We have functions that return th...
    almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

    page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Allow parallel offline table reorg of range partitioned tables with non partitioned indexes (NPI)

    Offline (classic) table reorgs might still be necessary in certain scenarios and can run for a very long time for huge tables (>24h). It is very hard to find a suitable window in a 24x7 System. Offline table reorgs - which have at least one non...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

    reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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