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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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Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve lim -t assignment functionality.

Requesting enhancements to how LSF Parses and assigns host types for both x86 and POWER architectures with the lim -t command. Current behavior causes inconsistent cpuf values due to bogomips changes on x86 and insufficient CPU-model differentiati...
14 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Under review

blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Proactively post messages to a channel via WXO (API)

There are tons of usecases where it is helpful to be able to proactively send messages to a channel which is connected to wxo already. Assume the following usecase:A user is creating a ticket for something not working in their flat with their prop...
13 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
26 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve cpdctl hotfix procedure

Currently, the only way to fix or update the cpdctl binary in CP4D (Watson Pipelines) is to manually download the latest version from GitHub and replace it in the container. This approach: Introduces compatibility risks, Lacks official support, Is...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Sync Library Templates with Copied Records

The current OpenPages library structure supports maintaining standardized Risk and Control libraries. End users can copy from these templates to create new Risks and their associated Controls. However, when library records are updated by the Risk ...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review