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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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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.

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Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
17 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow customization of displayed content in inline dimension selectors (Subsets / Levels / Elements)

Dear team, Idea Description: In PAW Explorations and Cube Views, the content shown in inline dimension selectors currently depends on the placement of the dimension and offers almost no configuration options: When the dimension is placed in the ...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
23 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review