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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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Add Full-Text Search and Advanced Filtering to Planning Analytics Server Logs

Dear team, Current Behavior The Planning Analytics Workspace Server Logs interface currently provides basic filtering capabilities, such as Log Level and time range. Logger Name filtering has also been requested separately in PAOC-I-2074. However,...
about 10 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

In-Place Version Rollback Support for IBM CDC Replication Engines After Upgrade Enhancement Title

Problem Statement Software upgrades inherently carry risk. Even with thorough pre-production validation, production environments can expose behaviors, performance regressions, or defects that only manifest under specific data volumes, source/targe...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Native Support for Dynamic Credential Retrieval from External Secrets Vaults in IBM CDC Replication Engines

Problem Statement Many enterprises — particularly in regulated industries such as banking, financial services, and healthcare — are required by corporate security governance and compliance frameworks to enforce mandatory, scheduled password rotati...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

## Enhance Line Object Formatting Options

Dear team, Description The formatting options for the Line object in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Books should be expanded to provide more flexibility for dashboard and application design. Currently, the Line object supports different line sty...
about 8 hours ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

add a verbatim pass-through option for native collaborator agents

the ability to add a native WxO collaborator (that is a separate agent doing its thing) to an WxO agent than when returning an answer to show this answer directly to the user instead of passing the answer through the Orchestrator LLM.
about 9 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Add DISCARD row count from Reorg to Utility history SYSOBJEVENTS table.

We would like to record details of discarded rows in the Db2 Utility History Object Event Details table. Capturing this information alongside the utility execution metadata, including the job name and execution details, would provide a valuable au...
8 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Tenant support for SQL/QReplication as source and target

The Db2 tenant concept is introduced in IBM Db2 12.1 and define an isolated, unique namespace for user-defined objects within a single database. It sits between the database instance and schema levels, allowing multiple independent groups or appli...
18 days ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Submitted

Add LMSTAT_PATH parameter to each ServiceDomain

Due to various compatibility issues between different flexlm version especially with 11.18 above, it is necessary to use the same lmstat version as the Vendor Daemon and thus the need to potentially configure each ServiceDomain with a different LM...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Submitted

Allow Optional CHAR-to-VARCHAR Conversion in DataGate to Preserve Application Transparency between Db2 for z/OS and Db2 LUW

When replicating data from Db2 for z/OS (EBCDIC) to Db2 LUW (UTF-8), DataGate increases the length of CHAR columns to accommodate Unicode expansion. While this behavior is understandable from a data integrity perspective, it can introduce applicat...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Enhance GNM Name Parsing logic to handle multi token names where the order of GN and SN is jurisdiction dependent as against culture specific

In many jurisdictions, the order of names on official documents does not follow cultural conventions and the current GNM’s reliance on culture-based parsing leads to failures in matching names when the order is reversed. There should be a configur...
about 2 hours ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted