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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

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    Allow DB2 to export data from a base table in normal state even if index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state

    DB2 should allow exporting data from a base table (tablespace) in normal state even if the index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state (or other abnormal state). This would allow us to rebuilt the table without losing data.DB2 should also alt...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

    I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Store auditing information directly in a table ( this option does not require files )

    Allow DB2 to configure auditing to store auditing information in a table. Information could be retrieved using SELECT commands and there is no need to use system procedures or utilities like db2audit to extract information from files. The purpose ...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    The option ordinality is used in XML queries but the overall performance is very slow

    We use the for ordinality option in our queries but the over all performance is very poor.There is a specific XSCAN needed when ordinality is specified which takes a long time. this XSCAN produces a sequence of XML ELEMENTS. This sequence is then ...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

    In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if you...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Data transfer between different database schema

    Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

    ALSM for pureScale

    ALSM (advanced log space management) is a nice feature to workaround long living transaction e.g. LOAD which write low volume of log records.
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

    Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

    Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

    In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
    about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Optimizer should ignore RTRIM when calculation filter factor

    When the optimizer calculates the filter factor for a predicate which uses RTRIM, it just returns the default value. (0.04)It should ignore the RTRIM and use the COLCARD of the column stats instead. Refer to Case: TS001114316
    about 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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