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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    CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

    Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
    3 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 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...
    8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
    10 days ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Submitted

    change default value for audit_buf_sz to none zero

    AUDIT_BUF_SZ is 0 by default. When it's 0 and combined with a very busy Db2 database and poor disk performance for the audit log destination, the performance impact of auditing can be significant. We want this parameter to be a small none zero val...
    2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    Enhancements to the Share Report Dialogue window - enhancing kiosk / auto refresh mode

    Within 12.1.3 the report share window now includes an option to auto-refresh. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=components-auto-refresh-reports This creates a URL that runs a report is kiosk mode. To support this new kiosk ...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

    JWT-based authentication for on-prem Db2 LUW using Microsoft Entra ID, with the Db2 Data Server Client retrieving the token from the Microsoft IDP.

    Provide native JWT/OIDC token-based authentication support for Db2 LUW on-premises, including modern Authorization Code Flow with PKCE and token validation. Extend the Full OIDC Flow capability by enabling the Db2 Data Server Client to natively in...
    23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 7 Submitted

    C* 5.0 SASI feature incorporated into Astra Serverless product

    SASI (SSTable Attached Secondary Index) is an advanced indexing mechanism in Apache Cassandra that stores index data directly inside SSTable files to support high-performance prefix, substring, and range queries on non-primary key columns. Key Fea...
    1 day ago in Astra 0 Submitted

    Bjobs/bhist pending duration data

    Quite often I have to look into complaints from users about their jobs being slow to start. If the job is still pending I can see why and explain that they are waiting for slots or licenses. But if the job has already run all I can see it the subm...
    1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Submitted

    Automatically removing license tokens from jobs

    LSF license scheduler assumes that a job that has a resource request for a license token will consume the corresponding license feature for the duration of the job execution. Unfortunately, users can waste license tokens by using the wrong queue o...
    1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Submitted

    orchestrate chat ask terminates session on widget response — CLI has no graceful fallback

    When a native agent calls a tool whose MCP server returns a widget payload (a structured UI component such as an interactive table), the orchestrate chat ask CLI command terminates the entire chat session instead of gracefully degrading to a text ...
    3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

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