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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    Allow for Multiple Columns on LOAD INTO TABLE WHEN Criteria

    We recently converted from BMC to IBM Db2 utilities. It would be very useful if multiple column names could be specified on the WHEN criteria for the Db2 LOAD utility. This would also make the functionality similar to the WHEN criteria of REORG WI...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Streamsets on prem support Single Node Openshift

    StreamSets on prem deployment requires too much hardware resources. A lightweight deployment is needed, with support for single-node OpenShift.
    3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

    Snowpipe Streaming destination for Snowflake

    Current Snowflake destination has performance limitations due to the nature of file-based process of uploading to Snowflake. Since 2023, Snowflake supports Snowpipe Streaming ingestion which doesn't have problems related to file-based upload, has ...
    6 months ago in StreamSets 0

    Force the use of Connections

    This would allow admins to prevent users from hard-coding credentials in pipeline
    3 months ago in StreamSets 2 Future consideration

    Support for Elasticsearch 9.x

    Elasticsearch released v9.x in April 2025; would be needed to add this support to StreamSets
    3 months ago in StreamSets 0

    Allow use of REORG DISCARD for DSNDB06.SYSTSUTL

    The SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES is going to require pruning -- and presumably SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS will as well. With row-level locking, doing a mass delete to purge unneeded history objects could become an issue with too many held locks and would likely r...
    3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

    We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Auth token renewal feature in the HTTP destination

    Please refer to the support case TS018758718 and engineering intervention INT-3254.
    3 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

    Expand credential fields to include. endpoint URLs

    Expand credential fields to include endpoint URLs. This would allow better security for example in the case where a Redis URL contains a password as well as better parameterization whenmoving connections across environments. One can already retrie...
    7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

    Reorg Index materialization

    For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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