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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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We request a feature enhancement for Db2 pureScale that enables the CF memory allocation (CF_DB_MEM_SZ) to be increased online, without being constrained by the maximum Group Buffer Pool (GBP) size and without requiring a database shutdown or restart.

The customer has been running Db2 pureScale continuously online for more than 600 days, and non-disruptive operation is a critical requirement. In this environment, it was identified that the Group Buffer Pool (GBP) capacity was insufficient. The ...
about 11 hours ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Enable usage of db2move copy as external refresh tool when mirroring

IBM CDC (IBM Infosphere Data Replication) External Refresh currently requires the export and import phases to be clearly separated so that the external unload can be marked between them. The documented workflow is: Run dmmarkexternalunloadstart s...
6 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Improved rollforward recovery with loadcopy for different database names

Enhance the --dbname logarchopt configuration parameter so that it applies universally across all log archive methods (e.g. COS/DISK) and extends to cover LOAD COPY image retrievals. This will provide a standardized, single-point override for all ...
1 day ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Add View Asset Type Filtering and Export Capabilities in Catalog Search

there is currently no effective way to retrieve and export a complete list of these assets. Although the asset type is visible in the user interface, View is not available as a filtering option: Catalog search: users cannot filter the results to...
5 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence 0 Under review

Enhancement to SYSIBM.ADMIN_EXPLAIN_MAINT Stored Procedure

The ADMIN_EXPLAIN_MAINT STP is currently one of IBMs solutions for large scale recreation/maintenance of explain tables. Actions like "CREATE", "DROP AND CREATE" or "STANDARDIZE_AND_CREATE" are currently using a predetermined format for the naming...
about 9 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

Synchronize shared title dimensions across worksheets during PAW Snapshot Export to Excel

Requested enhancement Add an option to Planning Analytics Workspace “Export snapshot to Excel” that synchronizes a shared title dimension across multiple worksheets during bursting, without requiring explicit cell references between their SUBNM fo...
about 9 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

One-Click AI Experiment Reproducibility and Intelligent Environment Compatibility Assistant for watsonx.ai Studio

I propose introducing a One-Click AI Experiment Reproducibility and Intelligent Environment Compatibility Assistant for IBM watsonx.ai Studio to help data scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI developers recreate previous experiments and ...
about 12 hours ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

1. Extend the Databricks scanner meta-model to support DASHBOARD entity types. 2. Adjust the extraction query to capture read events where entity_type = 'DASHBOARD' alongside target-table transformations.

Databricks records lineage for dashboards in system.access.table_lineage. Because dashboards only read data, these records have the dashboard as the entity (entity_type / entity_metadata), the consumed table as the source, and a NULL target. The q...
about 14 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve product name following the product main functionality

Often, when I talk with IBMers and Business Partners, they make the mistake of saying they want to know more about Data Governance while referring to watsonx.governance. However, the product that supports the Data Governance discipline is watsonx....
about 23 hours ago in watsonx.data intelligence / watsonx.data intelligence - General 0 Submitted