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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

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    Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

    Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    DENY Remote Connetions to DB2 if not from a permitted combination of System AuthId and Location/IPAddress with wildcarding

    Running DB2 11 NFM. We are trying to ALLOW a remote connection to DB2 on z/OS from ONLY specific combinations of User ID and IP Address via a DB2 mechanism that can be modified dynamically. Simply looking for a way to DENY a connection from remote...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    RECOVER to A MIGRATED FLASHCOPY

    We are in DB2 V10.We recovered a tablespace to a flashcopy. The flashcopy was migrated via HSM and the recover skipped to a previous copy (not migrated). The job returned return code = 04 with the message FLASHCOPY ....... FOR TABLESPACE DBHWCOPY....
    over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

    There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
    over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    refresh MQT with ur

    Up to now a REFRESH MQT with the UR-Option is not possible.
    over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    "DBRM load module cross-reference feature" be incorporate into Db2 Administration Tool

    As of April 30th, of 2020, IBM Db2 Bind Manager got  'end of service' and would not be supported anymore. Some Bind Manager Function were integrated to the IBM Db2 Administration Tool v12.1 but "DBRM load module cross-reference fea...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    ACCUMACC for CICS transactions

    ACCUMACC exists to aggregate accounting records for DDF transactions. It would be nice to have the same functionnality with classic transactions (CICS/IMS ..) because it reflects a today usage of these transaction monitoring systems. Without these...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

    Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Support INLINE xml column

    Asking for INLINE LENGTH for XML column like LOB column. It will make more efficient the work for short XML's.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

    Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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