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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Expose Data Gate Table Replication Status in Db2 LUW Catalog and/or Administrative Views

Applications using IBM Db2 Data Gate typically connect directly to the target Db2 LUW database and do not maintain connectivity to the source Db2 for z/OS system. Currently, table-level replication metadata is available through Data Gate APIs and ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Create CCA MCP Server builder using workflows UI.

Banco do Brasil (BdB) is one of the world's largest Watson Assistant users and is actively migrating their customer-facing virtual assistant to watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) using the Customer Care Agent (CCA) model. Building CCA solutions today requi...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

SLA Configuration issue in Watsonx Governance

The SLA is currently configured with a duration of three calendar days. As a result, weekends and public holidays are included when calculating SLA compliance. For example, if a use case is created on a Friday, it must be reviewed or approved by M...
2 days ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

zDBA as a Unified Modular UI Platform for IBM Z Database Products (Db2 & IMS)

Currently there are multiple standalone WebUI products, each with teir own: - Installation process (SMP/E, USS, WAS Server) - Configuration management (Keystore, RACF, TLS, Ports) - Security maintenance (PTF cycle, certificate rotation) - Migratio...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

zDBA Plugin for easy Profile Table administration

Currently the Profile Table administration is a task without a good visualization or documentation and you can't easily see which profiles are active. Without Db2 AI for z/OS it's also a static configuration element. Using zDBA as a WebUI administ...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support CRON expressions for DataStage job schedules in the UI

We schedule our DataStage ETL jobs from the UI. The scheduler only offers minutely, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly, and each field accepts a single value. Common patterns cannot be defined: every N hours (for example every 8 hours) several ...

Data Module Filter By Names Should Update in Dashboards

Data modules provides a filter by capability. In a dashboard this allows you to create a filter by picking a name and filter by a code. Reports have been able to do this forever - report prompts have a use and display value. An example is product ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Improve PAW-generated MDX for hierarchy selections

Dear team, Summary Improve MDX generation in Planning Analytics Workspace so that, where the resulting set semantics are unambiguous, PAW can generate simpler and more maintainable MDX instead of preserving the complete sequence of UI operations. ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Proving IBM Managed Db2 Genius Hub server without incurring additional resources for customer

For customers that already invested in purchasing/modernization of IBM Db2 AI licenses, it will require additional infrastructure resources/costs to install IBM Db2 Genius Hub (and its Genius Hub repository). While there is IBM Managed for AI Infe...
1 day ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted