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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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Expanded Locking Options and Partial Load Capability in DataGate GUI

Current Behavior: When executing a LOAD operation through the DataGate GUI, the only available option is a full load with row-level locking. This limits flexibility for use cases that require partial data loading or alternative locking mechanisms ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Submitted

Rendering of rich media: images & videos

Rich media formats for content presentations, viz. images, videos, interactive charts, tables [see ideas for tables and charts] Making insights easier to understand and act upon. Instead of lengthy reports, users will receive clear summaries b...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Delivered

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
5 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

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

Include DB2 Warehouse as a supported quality rule output

From Case number: TS019727896 Within the architecture that we have proposed to be able to use IKC as a Data Governance tool and where DB2 Warehouse is as a fundamental source, we need to have it as an option to create output tables of the results ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Db2 start command message output and return code

If a Db2 database is in RO mode at database level and you issue a -STA DB(DBName) SP(TSName) ACCESS(RW) command via batch, it outputs "DSNTDDIS 'START DATABASE' NORMAL COMPLETION" which is misleading because the table still cannot be loaded therea...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review
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Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
about 6 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

Improve visibility of choosen access path after rebind

We are using Db2 AI for z/OS with and without validation of the provided optimizations in SQL Optimization.For the option "with validation" you can see in the details table from the improvement which access path would be choosen after the rebind.I...
3 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted