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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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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    Add option to add comment on database and query the comment with SQL

    Hello,I can add comment on table, comment on column and comments on many more objects, but it seems difficult to add comment on database and impossible to query it. Current work-around is to add comment on database at DBA level. I can SSH to Linux...
    9 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

    Add Runstats Check functionality for DB2 LUW objects (similar to Reorgchk) to determine if a table really needs runstats or not

    No description provided
    over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Aauto graph should support exporting the report into .csv format like call-graphs

    Many z/OS banking customers have been running critical enterprise applications on the mainframe for decades. The WCA4Z/Understand/ADDI tooling provides significant value by helping users understand the interdependencies, complexities, and integrat...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

    DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

    In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

    Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

    DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Expose VSCode Extension Settings to Customize WCA CodeLens

    I would like an option to disable the CodeLens WCA context buttons in the VSCode editor. My preference is to copy/paste code snippets into the chat window, or to use the keyboard shortcuts, so the CodeLens buttons often just get in the way and clu...
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists

    IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

    We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    An AI assistant to transform generated COBOL into readable COBOL

    Transform COBOL code generated by a tool such as Pacbase or RPP into code that a COBOL developer could have written.
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Not under consideration

    Db2 LUW support on Ubuntu 22.04

    Please support Ubuntu 22.04 on v11.5 and vNext. Ubuntu 22.04 was released in April 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is April 2025 but it takes time for us to package, test and d...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Allow fixed MAXLOCKS value even if LOCKLIST is AUTOMATIC

    When LOCKLIST is set to AUTOMATIC, the MAXLOCKS setting cannot be set. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locklist-and-maxlocks-database-configuration-parameters-and-lock-escalations In general this follows the concept of LOCKLIST AUTOMATIC, but th...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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