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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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Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
2 months ago in watsonx.data 0

Change the NUMDB without having to stop/start

Change the NUMDB without stopping or starting.The client constantly needs to create new databases to support various IBM tools such as BAW, ELM, CONTENT MANGER and ON DEMAND. Whenever new databases are created, they need to change the NUMDB parame...
3 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Request for bundling GPFS/Storage Scale 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale v11.5

Overview We are requesting to bundle GPFS/Storage Scale version 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale 11.5. Currently, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is bundled with Db2 pureScale v11.5 Mod9 CSB 58840 or later. However, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is scheduled t...
4 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Under review

Improve the HADR commands for pureScale setups

Make it easier and more intuitive to operate HADR in a pureScale environment by adding "AT MEMBER X" to the START HADR command. For example: START HADR FOR DATABASE SAMPLE AS STANDBY AT MEMBER 1 That could have two functions: If there is current...
6 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Under review

Change DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY to automatic without having to stop the entire instance.

The client switched to the Db2 LUW PURESCALE solution for high availability, but noticed that some parameters, including DB2_DATABASE_CF_MEMORY, cause unavailability when changed. The client requests that this parameter be dynamic so as not to shu...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
6 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

watsonx.data able to use the Ozone S3 as Object Storage

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera on watsonx.data to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage clas...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 2