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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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Provide option to include / exclude external cluster URL in / from no_proxy setting

Provide option to include / exclude external cluster URL in / from no_proxy setting This refers to the following proxy configuration. Right now, the config has to be patched in OpenShift in order do add or remove URLs from the no_proxy list. https...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Introduce UI support setting up proxy configuration

Introduce UI support setting up proxy configuration This refers to the following proxy configuration which currently needs to be done on the command line: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.1.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Usage of Reoptimization for remote applications with DB2 Profiles

In many access path issues for applications with remote dynamic SQL statements reoptimization techniques (similar to the REOPT(ONCE/AUTO/ALWAYS) BIND Option for Db2 packages) controlled by Db2 profiles should be a performance benefit
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow to order the answers on the question of the questionnaire assessment

Right now, when there are several answers on the questions, every time another answer is added there is no option to reorder the answers. For example, if you have answers AA, BB, CC, DD, etc, and you need to add AB between AA and BB, then you need...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

SQL Tuning Services - client plugin - default options dialog on "Database connection profiles"

We have installed the “Db2 tuning services” on the mainframe. As client software we use the corresponding plugin in IDZ and also VS Code. If we now want to visualize the access path of a selected SQL statement, we must first define the correspondi...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Need a Db2 option to return control (and not wait) if the maximum number of threads is already reached

We've seen cases in z/OS DFSMS OAM where the application invoking OAM can use up the available Db2 connections/threads so when OAM goes to process their request, there are no longer any threads available resulting in a deadly embrace. Typically th...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review