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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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specify index to use for particular sql statement within optimizer

We are using IBM MAS Manage. When a user clicks "All Records" under Work Order Tracking, the application issues the SQL statement SELECT * FROM WORKORDER ORDER BY REPORTDATE DESC against the IBM Db2 database. We observed that the Db2 optimizer ign...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Pruning of recovery history file shouldn't block db2logw process

Hi IBM team, We have an environment that generated a lof of archived logs. We tried to perform DB Online backup every week but can't be completed due to various reason. The platform has parameter AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ set to ON with NUM_REC_RETENTION t...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

COS Allow tagging for backup and log files

COS objects can be tagged at creation e.g. to specify the time the COS object how long the object should be kept.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 2 Future consideration

Chat Session Personas to start a new chat session from a user pre-defined set of prompts

I’m picturing something like a way for a user to setup multiple personas/templates, and they could start a new chat session using one of these personas. For example, I may have one persona / template for a Java application running on Liberty, and ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel Today it is mandatory to define sslClientLabel (aka Friendly Name) if SSLClientKeystoredb value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE" is set. We h...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Planned for future release

Allow user to specify GPU node where LLM gets deployed during installation

Currently there is no way to determine what GPU or what node the LLM uses or gets deployed to. We need a mechanism by which we can specify the GPU node where the LLM gets deployed to. Since WCA is using the SYOM framework to serve the ibm-granite-...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
almost 8 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review