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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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Enrich DSNT771I with scope details

Below is the current DSNT771I message. It would be helpful if the actual scope details are provided in the message. We would prefer to see the actual Profile-ID.   Very nice to have would be AUTHID too, like you already do this in DSNL198I me...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Support recovery of data after a multi-table tablespace conversion to UTS

IBM Db2 for z/OS development will require that deprecated tablespaces will no longer be supported in vNext, and there is a requirement to convert them to UTS before going to Db2 13 FL511.  If a backup is created with the COPY utility prior to...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

zDBA Plugin for easy Profile Table administration

Currently the Profile Table administration is a task without a good visualization or documentation and you can't easily see which profiles are active. Without Db2 AI for z/OS it's also a static configuration element. Using zDBA as a WebUI administ...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

zDBA as a Unified Modular UI Platform for IBM Z Database Products (Db2 & IMS)

Currently there are multiple standalone WebUI products, each with teir own: - Installation process (SMP/E, USS, WAS Server) - Configuration management (Keystore, RACF, TLS, Ports) - Security maintenance (PTF cycle, certificate rotation) - Migratio...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable streamlined and validated import and deployment of custom foundation models on watsonx.ai SaaS

Who would benefit from it? Straker plans to run Tiri, its own Gemma 3-based model, as a custom foundation model on watsonx.ai SaaS for SwiftBridge AI v2, Straker's IR translation solution. A streamlined and validated import and deployment flow wou...

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make ALTER TABLESPACE and INDEX to new stogroup (and VCAT) controlled by DB2

Changing VCAT fror db2 tableapsces and indexes is is not well supported by DB2. The current process can lead to failures. Example for a INDEX -STOP indexspaceALTER indexspaceUSING STOGROUP stogroup-name-START indexspace REBUILD INDEX indexname If ...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes similar to how a status flag is provided for tablespaces in SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE. The 'STATUS' column in SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES does not provide the same type of information about index statuses as th...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review