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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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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Deferred ALTERs can be materialized on a subset of partitions

We have a 2048 partitioned Tablespace and need to ALTER the keyranges. Afterwards a REORG on the complete object is needed. We want a piecemeal tactic for the REORG: All ALTERs are in SYSPENDINGDDL, and a REORG on partition level can materialize a...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Informix v15 PDF Manuals

PDF Manuals are needed for offline use.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Enable IBMid / email (interactive) accounts to access IBM PA Cloud through TM1 REST API

PROBLEM: Currently we have to use non-interactive accounts to access IBM PA Cloud through TM1 REST API When developing 3rd party integrations and applications it causes significant limitations: 1. Companies have to manage an extra set of accounts ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Consider AMD ccd/l3 cache in affinity string

Hello, Currently, using affinity string, we can target a core, a numa, a socket or memory, but not an AMD CCD (Core Complex Dies, L3 cache shared by 8 or 16 cores) Allowing jobs requesting less cores than available in a CCD (8 or 16 currently) to ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Revoke impact report generated regardless of dependencies

Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS has an option to generate revoke impact report. If there is a dependency on authorisation you are trying to revoke which prevents the revoke, it displays a message (since PH65207): Can't revoke EXECUTE on &...
8 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration