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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

Provide more informative error messages for database connection issues in the UI.

Currently, users encounter vague error messages in the UI when facing database connection issues, which necessitates accessing CP4D logs to identify the root cause. By enhancing the clarity and detail of these error messages, users will have a mor...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Allow additional parameter configurations, like transaction isolation level, during DB2 connection setup

Currently, options such as setting the transaction isolation level are only available in the 'Generic JDBC' connector. By enabling these settings directly within the DB2 connection setup, users will have greater flexibility and control over connec...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adding an option to paginate the API call: /api/v1/groups/{id}/members

When the number of members under a group is too large, the API call is timing out. Being able to paginate these results would allow us to work around this restriction.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Product should have a more "visible" message when memory limits are being approached, instead of a cryptic message hidden in the sysout.

Currently when the a Datareplication started task starts having memory issues (messagepoolsize), the only indication of this is an error code (RC(08), SpcRC(006A004E)) related to memory allocation that comes out in the sysout/sysprnt of the job th...
about 1 month ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Under review

Need to take a backup for database more than 50 GB size

Hi Team, We have a database that is more than 50 GB when we take a backup daily, but when we restore the backup, all the feeder files are deleted, and the feeder files start loading. Loading all the feeders takes a long time, more than 10 hours, w...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL Server is filling tempdb continuously without releasing the space.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. At present our CDC is not reading transaction logs which is backed-up using COMMVAULT and other third party tools, so we have used "Capture table-based c...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

IIDR for Microsoft SQL as a source should read transaction logs from third party tools like COMMVAULT.

Customer is using COMMVAULT agent for taking transaction logs backup in Microsoft SQL Server. It is scheduled to take that backup after each 15 minutes. Our tool is not able to read the transaction logs from COMMVAULT. Also there is no feature in ...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted