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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add DSNL523I or DSNL519I for all available PORTs

Currently at DB2 startup, or when DDF is started, a DSNL523I or DSNL519I message is issued for the main DB2 PORT, the main SECPORT, and RESORT. I would like the same to be done for all available LOCATION ALIAS PORTs so our automation can validate ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow workflow instances to allow filtering prior to loading the instances

The workflow instances page can take ages to load when your system has a lot of workflows running. It would be great if you could filter upfront prior to the instances being loaded. This would greatly improve the productivity of administrators rat...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Future consideration

Workflow requestor does not see the next step approver/publisher user or group

Due to lack of transparency requestor cannot know how to escalate or monitor the progress of the request. Notifications do not show that information.
9 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Add SCOPE(GROUP) for -DIS STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT)

Our shop has 13 LPARs for our Production environment & while trying to figure out the best way to combined all the different FTB FACTOR values for the individual IXs it was mentioned maybe a future feature of something along the lines of -DIS ...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Performance Improvement Metrics of a SQL.

When we improve performance of a SQL by creating an index we generally try to capture and compare Time, CPU & Getpages of the sql before and after the SQL tuning is completed.If there is a way Query Tuning can help us capture using HASH TOKEN ...
16 days ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Export and import of workflow configurations for deployment process

We would like to test our workflow configurations before we move them to prod. Sometimes the configurations can be quite complex, especially if there are plenty of categories selected. Combined with e.g. terms and rules, we might have 60 lines in ...
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Allow to customize the standalone mode of the Questionnaire Assessment

As of now the standalone mode of the questionnaire assessment has Completion required and Due date fields available for users in the header, but in the custom task view of QA there can be another fields like Progress for example in the header. Loo...
17 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future consideration

Ability to disable job requeuing in google resource connector when jobs exit with TERM_RC_RECLAIM

We have jobs that should not be requeued after partially running due to corrupting the job output data. We would like to have a queue level parameter to disable requeuing of jobs that exit for TERM_RC_RECLAIM. To be consistent with other features,...
28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration