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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Show citations by relevance

Citations are shown to the user not based on their relevance. As a result, the first citation displayed may be irrelevant and only used to enrich the answer, while the main page containing all important information might appear last. Ideally, the ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Calculation Function: Dedup or non-invasive REMOVE for lists

When trying to write out a function, we keep running into a situation as we get deeper into the hierarchy, and information is pulled from ancestors we keep having occasional duplicate values that might form a list. There are no functions or method...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Data Masking in INFORMIX

Our objective is not to see any sensitive data outside the production systems. As an example here is our real requirement. In a PROD environment, we can see the table data as usual . For data protection purposes, the data of the same table needs t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Default sort for fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated' in Drive Explorer

When in Drive Explorer, upon first selecting to sort on fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated', can the first sort be largest to smallest (Size), and latest to oldest (Last Updated) set as the default. For large folders, it can take some time for the so...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

In grid view user can not filter top 100 or 200 record (for a field value or a date filed)

In object type with a lot of records, it's possibile to create personal and public filters BUT it's not possibile to filter a number or records (example top 100, top 200) order by a value (loss value or by a date (for example creation date or last...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration