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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    Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

    Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
    5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

    Prevent Double Counting for Multi Selection List Using the Aggregate Option in Advanced Synchronization

    When using a Multi Selection List with the Aggregate option in Advanced Synchronization, users can select both a higher-level consolidation and a member that already rolls up into that consolidation. This causes the member to be included twice in ...
    about 18 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Enable IS NOT NULL index fragment elimination in IDS14

    We were advised in TS021736198 "Partial index query plan change" to exclude NULL values from being indexed by having them in the REMAINDER partition with INDEX OFF. That fixed query plans on other values, and nested loop joins worked again, but we...
    5 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Native built-in string similarity and edit-distance functions for Db2 LUW (Teradata TD_StringSimilarity / EDITDISTANCE equivalents)

    Db2 LUW has no built-in way to measure how similar two strings are. The only related functions are SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE. These are phonetic, English-centric and ASCII-only. Customers who need fuzzy matching, such as deduplication, customer or en...
    5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

    Enable Real Time Statistics to be written while REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE is running

    When a REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility is running, RTS collection for the affected object can be interrupted until the utility completes. For large tablespaces and indexes, online REORGs may run for many hours or even days, resulting in si...
    18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    add DEFAULT parameter to TO_DATE, so that faulty date format dont generate an error but it return the default value

    for now, the TO_DATE function generate and error when the passed parameters is not a valide DATE, we need that TO_DATE return a default value when the passed parameter is not a valid date, this function exists in oracle since V18:https://docs.orac...
    about 1 hour ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    NTLM support on SalesForce connector on Cloud Pak for Data (DataStage)

    Currently our salesforce connector connects to salesforce using user id and password via app proxy service without authentication at the app proxy layer.  With current security and vulnerability issues identified by Mythos, the network team i...
    about 5 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    RATE-FAIR — Large-load tariff fairness agent preventing residential cost-shifting

    RATE-FAIR — Large-load tariff fairness agent preventing residential cost-shifting Problem: FERC's June 2026 orders force utilities to prove their existing pricing structures can accommodate massive data centers or reform them, and state commission...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    GRID-PATH — Interconnection readiness agent for large loads

    GRID-PATH — Interconnection readiness agent for large loads Problem: More than 2,600 GW of interconnection requests sit in U.S. queues — over double the country's installed generation capacity — and connecting a data center takes nearly five years...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    ASSET-ORACLE — Transformer and substation health agent with months-ahead failure prediction

    ASSET-ORACLE — Transformer and substation health agent with months-ahead failure prediction Problem: Utilities collect asset-health data — temperature, vibration, dissolved-gas analysis — but never correlate it with weather or load patterns, so tr...
    about 5 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

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