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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Db2

Showing 1337 of 14473

New Redhat ipcmni_extend setting Recommendation in the DB2 Infocentre

Hello, Db2 Luw seems to be a victum of Redhat change https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4968021 The change is effective of Redhat 7.8+, where you need to set ipcmni_extend to allow db2 to request more then 32k of MSGMNI as per https://www.ibm.com...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

In db2look, for mimic stats, option to include commit each X sentences

In order to mimic an environment, the stats are extracted via db2look, and then inserted a regular execution of the generate file. The problem is that the generated updates could be easily more than 15000 sentences and it has two issues: If execut...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

SQL2080N Snapshot Backup Failed Unique Volume Issue

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 6 Not under consideration

Add a value to TYPE column of SYSPACKAGE to indicate that Package is IDAA Enabled

I’m surprised that there is no reference in SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, I’m sure there is a lot of customer code out there that generates BIND Cards and would not think to look in SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDPACKAGES, to determine BIND options. Separating th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

load privilages should not affect runstants

RS should not require load authority Authorization For a table, you require one of the following authorities: •SYSADM•SYSCTRL•SYSMAINT•DBADM•SQLADM•CONTROL privilege on the table•LOAD authority
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

SP monitoring

Make monitoring/control of SP via WLM easier.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Connection Monitor Percentage VS Numeric Static Value

In Monitoring Profiles>Alerts Monitoring>Connections , you can only set a static value for Critical and Warning Thresholds. I would like the ability to be able to set a percentage of a certain total. Those totals could come from the database...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration