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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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Tenant support for SQL/QReplication as source and target

The Db2 tenant concept is introduced in IBM Db2 12.1 and define an isolated, unique namespace for user-defined objects within a single database. It sits between the database instance and schema levels, allowing multiple independent groups or appli...
2 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

Allow Optional CHAR-to-VARCHAR Conversion in DataGate to Preserve Application Transparency between Db2 for z/OS and Db2 LUW

When replicating data from Db2 for z/OS (EBCDIC) to Db2 LUW (UTF-8), DataGate increases the length of CHAR columns to accommodate Unicode expansion. While this behavior is understandable from a data integrity perspective, it can introduce applicat...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Add Subscription Level Replication Statistics to the Product Functionality

In case of high QReplication workload its sometimes necessary to determine the causing table / subscription of this workload fast and efficient for Problem determination . Currently workload Statistics are implemented at an Queue level (in Table I...

Improve configuration guidance and diagnostic feedback for Workflow and Data Accountability

Dear team, Description Current behavior When configuring Data Accountability and Workflow features in Planning Analytics Workspace, several UI actions may remain disabled without providing any explanation to the user. Examples include: Data Acco...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Inherit COMPRESS attribute from base table space partition for XML table spaces

We figured out that Db2 only uses the top level or table sace COMPRESS attribute for the DDL of the XML table space instead of using the partition level COMPRESS attribute.Because we have large XML table spaces we want them to be compressed. XML p...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Near-term history data is not carried forward to V6.1

We have upgraded Omegamon for DB2 from 5.5 to Z OMEGAMON AI for Db2 6.1 but we lost near term history data of V5.5 once the Omegamon is in V6.1 and started to build from there . I understand that in 6.1.0, history datasets are formatted at startup...

Possibility to hide rows in standard forms CCR web

We ask for a possibility to hide a row, that's included in a row definition, in a standard form in CCR web. Maybe a tick box in the row definition where you can select/deselect if a row should be visible in the standard form when you are reporting...
2 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Add configurable task locking and plan finalization controls for Planning Analytics Workspace Plans

Dear team, Description Current behavior IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Plans provide workflow capabilities that allow users to complete assigned tasks by entering data and submitting their work. However, after a task has been submitted, administ...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

JWT-based authentication for on-prem Db2 LUW using Microsoft Entra ID, with the Db2 Data Server Client retrieving the token from the Microsoft IDP.

Provide native JWT/OIDC token-based authentication support for Db2 LUW on-premises, including modern Authorization Code Flow with PKCE and token validation. Extend the Full OIDC Flow capability by enabling the Db2 Data Server Client to natively in...
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Mergecopy just generating JCL not smart on what TS should be in the jobs, very basic

Started looking into using HAA to generate MERGECOPY JCL. I am hoping I am doing things wrong. If not the product fails short of how the JCL should be generated. Here's what I am seeing. 1. JCL is just being generated without any intelligence of w...
4 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS Submitted