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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    Fix "ZRC=0x870F003E=-2029060034=SQLO_QUE_BAD_HANDLE "Bad Queue Handle" - when db2 utility output is piped

    This error has been reported since 2014 and still not fixed as of DB2 LUW CSB build level 2503051558 (March 2025 release). You have updated DT236621 as recently as February 2025 and claim this is resolved; but we are at the March 2025 release and ...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

    Revision of the DMC installation

    We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

    The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

    Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
    4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 2 Under review

    Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

    We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

    Allow to select personal favorite Queries

    Hi, as queries still don't allow groups or personal queries another idea would perhaps come in handy. We have hundreds of queries in our application, somewhat organized by a naming scheme that allows some filtering. Still it is a bit difficult for...
    10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

    location property exposed in bigquery connector

    Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
    10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

    External Table USING Options

    Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
    10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    LISTDEF (like) utility

    This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
    10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Support Provisioning an instance to a Schema where objects already exist

    We need the ability to deploy a DOE instance into a Db2 where objects with the target schema name already exist. This is required, for example, if we have PLAN_TABLEs pre-provisioned for a given schema, or if we later determine that we need additi...
    6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

    Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

    “ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

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