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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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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...
19 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Efficient READA

I was monitoring a task in my product. This task executes a call to the READA service to obtain the current READA buffer when posted by DB2. I was monitoring to determine why the CPU usage by that task was high. My analysis determined that 99% of ...
about 4 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Remove or increase the Scheduler repeat limit (currently capped at 100)

Watsonx Orchestrate Scheduler currently has a hard limit of 100 repeats per scheduled task. For production deployments where agents or flows need to run on a recurring basis (e.g. daily), this means the schedule silently expires after approximatel...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Langflow available on watsonx Orchestrate SaaS

As of today, developing Langflow workflows is only available through watsonx Developer Edition through adding "--with-langflow" while starting the server locally. The request is to include the same experience with the SaaS instance without the nee...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

SQL Tuning Services: Invoking Tuning Report with URL containing the JobID – alternative to randomly generated URL

We know how to work with the „JobResult“ API today. This gives us access to the original access pathes as long as the meta data and EXPLAIN data is available. But we consider the handling difficult - especially when communicating with developers. ...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
7 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review