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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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Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
21 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Under review

Change the default view of assets to show only data assets

Hello! Today, when we enter the knowledge catalog and access an available catalog, the default view shows us all the catalog assets, such as "Data Contract", "Physical Restriction" and "Data". In the attached image "1" we see an example of this vi...
about 12 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...

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...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 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...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i

We need TLS encryption between Access Server (on Linux/Windows) and CDC Db2 for i due to company security restrictions otherwise we can't use CDC with Db2 for i.
7 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Under review

Provide industry standard support for MFA on Replication Centre

We use a wide range of IBM Db2 tools and products and the vast majority of them already support MFA security. MFA is a defacto industry security standard and we would expect all IBM products to support it. We see this as a major deficiency in the ...

SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...