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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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Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COPY support for XML data in all cases

DSN1COPY does not currently supports XML table restore on another DB2 subsystem or in the case of a dropped XML tablespace. This lack can be easily bypassed by an UNLOAD / RELOAD in the case of a copy to another DB2 subsystem. But in the event of ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

add data masking as option for object security in Framwork Manager and Data Module

Having Data Masking available as security option for object security in Framework Manager and the Data Module allows us to set the visibility of a certain attribute in a report or dashboard for specific user groups, as defined in the security of C...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration
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Introduce MON_ADM privilege for monitoring purposes

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A MON_ADM privilege will be useful for monitoring tasks, manually or automatically like through Data Server Manager or IBM ITM. Such a privilege will only enable the user to use the monitoring framework table functions and adjacent functionality r...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF processing when using CHECK Utility

Details: 1) Manual does not mention use of "LIST" on the "CHECK DATA" page. Example proposed syntax: LISTDEF CHKLIST INCLUDE TABLESPACE DB123.* CHECK LIST CHKLIST SCOPE ALL EXCEPTIONS 0 SORTDEVT WORK
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 columnar table replication via CDC

Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current workaroun...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration
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Improving Db2 accounting report

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[Current Product & Version] -Db2 12 for z/OS -IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.4 -z/OS v2.3 -WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment] Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem] Our customer...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide Db2 history of installs/updates including date

For auditing and compliance purposes, Db2 needs to easily make the following information available:- Database Version, Release, ModPack, FixPack (including security special builds)- Database Date/Time of the creation and subsequent updates- Databa...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration