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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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Keep in memory jobs killed over PTL (Pending Time Limit)

Hi, following suggestion in IBM support case. We see that jobs killed over PTL are immediately removed from LSF master memory so that even while a job ID was issued during submit, status check via bjobs/bhist does not find such job ID resulting in...
1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Changing host server for Database

In Infosphere Information Governance Catalog, it is not possible to change the Host Server for a database.Unfortunately, sometimes databases are moved from one server to another, and the only option we have is to make all the changes manually:- Ex...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

watsonx.ai to support OpenShift running on virtualized environments (here VMWare)

As it turned out in a recent conversation with watsonx.ai Product Management, watsonx.ai running on OpenShift on VMWare is currently not officially supported. OpenShift on VMWare is a pretty common deployment scenario. We need to get this resolved...
7 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

This topic is about too many endpoint for inferencing in foundation models through watsonx which makes application development harder to do.

This topic is about too many endpoint for inferencing in foundation models through watsonx which makes application development harder to do. We are facing a big workload with a customer (Banco do Brasil) due to too many endpoint for inferencing wa...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review