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 Administration Tool for z/OS

Showing 29

ADB27C panel constraint/primary key column flag

On the ADB27C panel, give the user a facility (or let them know upfront) whether any columns are part of a constraint, index or anything that requires “extra work” (e.g. Having to use UP,DP to update, etc.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change Management - refresh button

The panel doesn't automatically refresh and no command "button" to do so.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Admin Tool: Cannot Scroll Right to View Info Edit Subject

The Db2 Administration Tool 12.1.0 does not allow scrolling to the right when listing image copies for table spaces. 1. From the “DB2 Administration Menu 12.1.0” – select option 1 – DB2 system catalog 2. From the “System Catalog” menu, select Opti...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Parameter to govern "drop LOB tablespace" when dropping base table

When dropping a table using Db2Admin, it should be possible to ensure that any related LOB tablespaces will be dropped as well. This could be done via a new parameter. An explicitly defined LOB tablespaces does not get dropped by Db2 when the bas...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

adding NOPAD support for the catalog copy

allow NOPAD as it makes a lot of sense if you have a lot of varchar. We are really struggling with space when not using it. There is no support for adding options like NOPAD to the UNLOAD for the catalog copy. So the UNLOAD statement will have to...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Timeout retry logic for ADBTEP2 when driven with CM BATCH

as outcome from an AOC workshop : customer experiences sometimes timeouts when running CM BATCH driven ADBTEP2 worklist executions. These timeouts make the WSL execution fail and leaves the change process unfinished. It takes time to identify and ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide admin support for Db2 for z/OS Native Rest Services feature

The development and infra-structure support team would like to have the REST Services as a item of DB2 Administration tool in order to facilitate the management of REST resource used by the community. Use CaseImplement a new item on DB2 Admin to m...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 5 Delivered

Unable to add, alter or drop FKs or check constraints under admin tool ALT RFE 122297

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=122297 In admin tool, I want to be able to easily add, alter and drop foreign keys and check constraints under the ALT functionality. At the moment I can on...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Editing limit keys in admin tool RFE 122294

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=122294 In admin tool for panel ADB27CPV, there is no indicator to clearly see which keys have been edited. There is also no way to undo individual limit key...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered