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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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Ability to edit the knowledge generation configuration in the UI

I have found that the formatting of agent responses can only be achieved effectively through the generation configuration knowledge settings in the ADK, rather than through the behavioural prompts or guidelines. This means live demos are always go...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Reset the DSC counters when doing EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL

We are running IFCID 318 and externalize the Dynamic Statement Cache regularly to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE. For ease of use, we reset the counter by doing STOP and START of the IFCID 318 as described in the manual. The time from EXPLAIN STMTCACHE...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve the HADR commands for pureScale setups

Make it easier and more intuitive to operate HADR in a pureScale environment by adding "AT MEMBER X" to the START HADR command. For example: START HADR FOR DATABASE SAMPLE AS STANDBY AT MEMBER 1 That could have two functions: If there is current...
6 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Under review

Add Teams loading icon when agent is "thinking" for Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams there is no teams loading icon when agent is "thinking", when using the built in channel deployment feature. This would be helpful to our customers in order to get some sort of status when it comes to the thinking phase during a...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

staged create index with focus on always on

We would like to create an index in Db2 for z/OS without interruption during ongoing operations. Idea is to get an option during create index to mark this index as "in creation". Such marked index would be ignored during BIND, REBIND and not maint...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Monitoring of Elastic Search pods can be tricky due to all memory usage

Upon checking the diagnostics and screenshot, this is the warning message: hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-000 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded the 90% threshold. hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-001 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded t...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review