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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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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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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,


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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.

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.

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WLM should support IDLE timeout threshold for activity.

WLM supports connection IDLE timeout threshold with CONNECTIONIDLETIME. Our customer would like to have IDLE timeout threshold for SQL statement activity within a connection with fine granularity. They periodically issue mon_get_activity and mon_g...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.

Perform rebuild of each index (for a table) in its own transaction

In the current design, all the index rebuilds for a table are performed within the same transaction (as the action that triggered them). If the transaction is interrupted (e.g. user interrupt or dropped session), then the entire transaction is rol...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Make NUMBLOCKPAGES automatic/self tuned

Make the value of NUMBLOCKPAGES to be automatically computed as a percentage of the total number of pages in a bufferpool AND/OR make at least the update of such value an online operation.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Azure Blob storage on SUSE Linux for Db2 12.1.3

We would like to configure our backup to use Microsoft Azure Blob. Do you have step by steps how to configure CATALOG STORAGE ACCESS and use DB2REMOTE ? It seems it work for S3 storage on Linux SUSE, but it doesn't work with Microsoft Azure Blob o...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

"db2pd -ha" enhancement for Pacemaker managed env

For TSAMP managed env, "db2pd -ha" returns the cluster info. For PCMK mananged env, "db2pd -ha" returns nothing.
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Is a defect

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review