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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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Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Increase AutoAI Data Volume and Resource Limits

Current behavior: CP4D PoC AutoAI Limits Practical dataset size limit of ~1 GB(SaaS) when uploading data via the AutoAI UI. Upload appears to be memory‑bound: data is loaded directly into the service pod’s memory. Users are blocked from running re...
about 16 hours ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
7 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
27 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

access to JupyterLab should not be limited to Git-integrated projects

They want to be able to: access Jupyter Lab through all project types Open a built‑in terminal session directly inside JupyterLab Run common CLI tools such as curl and other Linux utilities Use the terminal for API calls, diagnostics, troubl...
7 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Terminal access in Spark environments

Customer request: Terminal access in Spark environments (no terminal is available in the Spark runtime; terminal currently exists only in Python runtimes). They want a built‑in terminal/CLI regardless of whether the project is: CP4D project, or Gi...
7 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

pacemaker Quorum - pingable IP

This is related to AHA DB24LUW-I-2236. Pingable quorum is easy to manage and require less hardware / support.
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Schema Security-Administrator

We use the concept of virtual databases. There is one physical database which contains more virtual databases (we call it schema-database) So a virtual database is a schema in an physical database. The concept of schemaadm is used to create db-obj...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted