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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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change default value for audit_buf_sz to none zero

AUDIT_BUF_SZ is 0 by default. When it's 0 and combined with a very busy Db2 database and poor disk performance for the audit log destination, the performance impact of auditing can be significant. We want this parameter to be a small none zero val...
less than a minute ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

An AI-driven Oracle-to-Db2 Migration Copilot that enables organizations to move mission-critical databases to IBM Cloud faster, safer, and with predictable costs.

Organizations migrating databases from Oracle to IBM Cloud often face challenges in schema conversion, stored procedure migration, performance tuning, dependency analysis, and cost estimation.Develop an AI-powered Db2 Cloud Migration Copilot withi...
about 4 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Enhance LM_PROJECT support in RTM

When debugging job issues, it's helpful to see which LM_PROJECT the specific job is using.When identifying job success and failure trends, it's helpful to see the project names.For planning purposes, it's useful to look at license usage by LM_PROJ...
about 9 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM Submitted

This idea is a safety AI feature. As AI Agent comes with a risk of major news leak or breach of confidential Data, which could lead to a major desaster. Here is where my IDEA come to play, I introduce an AI bodyguard of an AI minder, It will check and let the AI Agent know that this particular action is not allowed. AO bodyguard or Minder can be deployed in government departments, sensitive administrations, security services, and cloud watch, the AI bodyguard will be the guru of an overall AI safety.

Dear IBM It is an overall major safety that customers will be at ease with it as the public is very wary about AI very cautious even scared to be involved. Imagine schools will have their own AI bodyguard, Airports can use them. An establishment c...
about 10 hours ago in AI Governance Submitted

Enhance Drive Explorer User Activity Logging, SFTP Traceability, and Activity Monitoring Dashboard

Currently, Drive Explorer provides limited visibility into user-specific activities and file transfer operations. To improve traceability, auditing, and operational monitoring, we request the following enhancements:
about 17 hours ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

SAP HANA Support for IBM Optim 2.0

SAP HANA is currently not listed among the supported data sources/targets for IBM Optim 2.0. We have a customer currently using SAP HANA and are evaluating their future adoption/upgrade to IBM Optim 2.0. We would like IBM Optim 2.0 to provide nati...
about 19 hours ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy Submitted

Consistent/Dependent Masking Across Related Columns in IBM Optim Data Privacy

IBM Optim Data Privacy currently applies masking policies independently at the column level, which can result in inconsistent data when multiple columns have a logical relationship. For example, if the source data contains: First Name: ARAVIND | L...
about 19 hours ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy Submitted

CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
about 18 hours ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Submitted

Levenshtein Distance with Normalization - Confidence score

Business requirement: During check fraud detection, need a solution to identify the payee name and the account holder name are same person with a confidence score. Existing capability just offers Levenshtein Distance, does not offer normalization ...
1 day ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business Submitted

Support for "Security Headers" (masked) on Web Client Connections

While the Connection object allows us to specify custom headers, they are treated as standard/common headers. The UI does not mask the input, which exposes sensitive API keys and tokens in plain text to anyone with view access to the connection. H...
1 day ago in StreamSets Submitted