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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    blimits command functionality improvements

    Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
    5 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

    Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

    With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
    8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Perform WITHDRAW action to all copy elements involved in the Flashcopy process to avoid errors in the subsequent cloning process.

    In the withdraw process already included in the product, all copy elements involved in the Flashcopy process should be withdrawn, i.e., source and destination disks from the primary array and source and destination disks from the secondary array. ...
    about 17 hours ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Avoid VTOC errors after FC NOCOPY during the cloning process executing ICKDSF INIT to target disks.

    After performing a Flashcopy with NOCOPY option, numerous errors have been detected on the target disks.After many tests related to the case indicated, we believe it would be very useful for the tool itself to perform a target disk initialization ...
    about 17 hours ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

    CQM - enhancing IVP checks after apply and activation of new maintenance

    We would like to have BATCH job for IVP checks to verify correct functionality in user interface. Due to occasional events where after the IPL's during monthly maintenance cycles it happens that some of the records from other lpars (we are using s...
    about 20 hours ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Differentiate Runtime and Design-Time Lineage in Manta UI

    Manta currently displays lineage generated from OpenLineage RunEvent (runtime) and JobEvent (design-time) in the same way with no visual distinction between them. This makes it difficult for users to tell whether lineage represents what actually r...
    1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Support Column-Level Lineage in Manta to Alation Export for OpenLineage

    Manta can ingest column-level lineage from OpenLineage, but this details is not preserved when exporting to Alation. As a result, only table-level lineage is visible in Alation and critical attribute-level relationships are lost. We propose enhanc...
    1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

    In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
    6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    The installation panel does not show the accelerator name

    The name of the accelerator shows in the “upload, validate and apply” section and it is on the second page. It would be nice to see the accelerators name on the top of the panel.
    about 11 hours ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

    IDAA installation panel lists ipaddresses and userid and password. - does not validate ipaddress

    One of the IDAA installation panel list ipaddresses and userid and password. - it seems like the UI validates the useid and password, but does not validate ipaddress. And by mistake if you put in the wrong ip address (browser auto populates the ip...
    about 11 hours ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

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