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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Please provide roll back feature for information server fix packes

We have experienced technical problem with fix packs of IBM information server ( v 11.3.0) and not able to roll back . Due to this we have system downtime. We request IBM to please provide roll back feature on FP on information server side so we c...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Running OP 7/24 with proper backup

We have international users and OpenPages shall be running 7/24 and at the same time with backup running nightly. With the fact that OpenPages doesn't store all information in the database, it stores part of it in the file system openpages-storage...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Delivered

New Access Type to Support Table Changes

Problem statement/ pain point: When making changes to Db2 tables there are times when you need to put the table space into a read only status to prevent update from occurring but allow the users the most time with the table being changed. The prob...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

IIDR (CDC) is designed to work with a Type 2 JDBC driver. This driver is does not support WLB for DB2 purescale

RBC is currently building a Master Data Hub on DB2 PureScale, which will host up to 17 databases. All databases will receive data replicated via IIDR from source systems such as DB2 iSeries, DB2 on AIX and SQL Server on Windows. Our Target IIDR (C...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Data Catalog dynamic IP address frustrates IP address security filters in remote clouds and on-premise systems.

I'm testing the Data Catalog's ability to access a remote(to IBM's cloud) relational database. I provisioned a NoSQL database using AWS RDS service. I wanted to set the AWS security group to only permit access from the IP address used by the Data ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

SSL/TLS connection between metadata repository and service tier.

As per recent case (TS007746794) with IBM, it is confirmed that TLS/SSL connection doesn't support between metadata repository and service tier. Recently our system is migrated to oracle 19c and as per company standard there must not be any non ss...
almost 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration