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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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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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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.

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Compact EXPLAIN report

SQLPA report provide all info once, like 1) Index or Tablespace scan 2) Used Index name and its key columns, 3) All alternate indexes with key columns etc. I'd like to see the access path used only at the initial report, and when I am not satisfie...
16 days ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Revert ANLPQBR1 panel to table based version in SQLPA 5.1

The ANLPQBR1 panel has been changed from to table version (SQLPA 5.1) to a one-line-per-screen version (SQLPA 5.2). This makes it near impossible to work through an access-path, using the typical PLAN_TABLE 'table format' which has been around for...
3 months ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Under review

Update process so all new modules are delivered/maintaned by SMP instead of during deployment

SMP is a better way to manage and be aware of change. Having deployment processes creating them leaves more opportunity for them to become out of sync with the SMP delivered components.
about 1 month ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA Admin Services: Unable to administer IDAA due to client application name db2jcc_application

At our firm we block any transaction that tries to connect with a non compliant application name: example: db2jcc_applicationWe use dsn_profile_tables for this. Part of the IDAA Admin services also runs with db2jcc_application therefor we are unab...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 1 Submitted

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
11 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhanced Scheduling for Data Delay Monitoring

Optimize the configuration of data delay monitoring processes by incorporating a configurable calendar that allows including processes with non-daily frequencies (weekly, monthly, hourly, etc.). This would expand the monitoring coverage and improv...
12 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Submitted

IDAA Admin Services : Unable to view Accelerator in separate tabs

In UMS, when we explore objects and bring up Accelerators list, we are able to view only one Accelerator at a time. when we right click on another accelerator and open in new tab, it does not work. In data studio we can open multiple Accelerators ...
11 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Support index on expressions for virtual indexes

During the SQL performance tuning for a query having a scalar function (lower case) coded in it, DB2 SQLPA tool was checked to see if there is an option to create a virtual index but since there is no way of creating it in the current version, use...
over 1 year ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Databand Alerts - Pause pipeline alerts on all or selective alerts during scheduled maintenance windows or ad-hoc.

Being able to pause "pipelines" during know scheduled maintenance windows or ad-hoc pauses when known testing is going on. The options should be able to pause ALL alerts on a pipeline or certain alerts. As in pick and chose by type like "Critical"...
over 1 year ago in Databand / Not functional 0 Submitted

Enhance UMS to fully support AT-TLS.

From time to time we get audit findings for SSL vulnerabilities and so we prefer having that all centralized in AT-TLS to provide better visibility and management than having to tweak individual products.
12 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review