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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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Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
30 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules. Today, when creating Data Protection rules you need to type the column header names you want to select and it is very err...
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Use direct-row access for queries using the RID-function and multi-row fetch

Suppose that you have a query like this: SELECT * FROM table A WHERE RID(A) = 21206417921 This query should use direct-row-access and should quickly determine a result. This is true if you do not use a cursor with multi-row-fetch. If you use a cur...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support for List type in Variant datatype column for Snowflake Destination stage

Customer is trying to insert an array json into a Snowflake table with one of the column of Variant datatype. They encountered error "invalid type 'LIST', column type is 'VARIANT' " when pushing array data to Snowflake destination stage.
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 5 Under review

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review