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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    Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

    Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

    Add flag into db2advis to ignore existing indexes

    When troubleshooting performance issues on tables with a high number of indexes, the db2advis tool kind of falls flat. What we have done to get around this is to restore a backup of the database in question, drop all indexes, and then run the db2a...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

    Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

    Reorg pending status should be in a table like SYSCAT.TABLES

    The column that indicates if a table is in reorg-peding is in a table that is not in the schame SYSCAT. This value should be in a table in SYSCAT, because this schema is the catalog, and it is almost standard across versions, and it is a set of vi...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    I would like to have Db2 11.5.5.1 supported in a Power10 environment on AIX Ver. 7.2 TL5 SP2.

    In order to implement Power10, the customer plans to migrate their current AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 environment to the new Power10 environment. However, their current version of Db2, version 11.5.5.1, is not supported, so they would like to have it support...
    12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Create User Temporary Tables in round robin

    Assuming that there is more than one temp tablespace with the same page size and 'IN TABLESPACE' clause is not specified in the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE command, then DB2 optimizer should allocate the temp tables across all temporary tablesp...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

    it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

    event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

    event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DMC product if it can provide the monitor URL or dashboard thru the browser method.

    Because the current DMC product not provide the monitor URL or dashboard thru the browser method. User hope to request an ticket or request an new feature or function to the DMC product development team. Hope product team can be adopt the user req...
    12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

    Online db encryption at rest

    To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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