Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 26, 2023

Allow Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load.

We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies.

We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY database privilege because we don't want these users to be authorized to run Modify Recovery.

Everything works great until the user does a Load of a table that is associated with a LOB table space. When the user tries to do an inline copy of the LOB table space during the Load of the base table, the copy is unsuccessful with this message: FUNCTION INLINE COPY IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR LOB OR XML TABLE SPACES. And, the user cannot run a stand alone Copy utility because they do not have the IMAGCOPY database privilege.

Proposed Remedies:

A) Change the Load utility to allow inline copies of LOB and XML table spaces.

B) Allow a user to run Copy on a database that they have the LOAD database privilege on.

C) Create a new IMAGCOPYO (image copy only) database privilege that allows a user run Copy but does allow a user to run Modify Recovery.

Needed By Quarter