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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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Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to influence the naming of NSDs in a Db2-managed pureScale installation

We run a regular cloning of a Db2 pureScale to provide a time consistent copy which is used for BI/DWH purposes.This is done via storage features, in our case with HDS (Hitachi) Shadow Image (similar to IBMs FlashCopy). We don't have any issues to...
8 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
22 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Submitted

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different

Blocking Db2 connections to reduce the DSNL030I message flooding.

PTF delivery by IDEA DB24ZOS-I-1342 has already included the reduction of the DSNL030I message, it is working well for messages with REASON=00F3008* but the PTF does not include messages with REASON=00D30113 (invalid RACF ID), so these messages st...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Under review

Add support on Windows 11 to MDM AE 12.0

As Windows 10 is being phased out on the customer and they are not considering the migration to MDM AE 14.0 for the time being, there is a need to add support to Windows 11 for MDM AE 12.0.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 2 Functionality already exists

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.

Display Action Status on Folders in watsonx Assistant

In watsonx Assistant, each action has a status, and if it is red, it indicates an error. However, when the action is inside a folder, you need to access the folder to check the status. The suggested improvement is to display the status directly on...
25 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Lineage Support for IBM I-series - AS/400

We get requests for lineage for i-series - mainly db2 for i and we have to always say "Not Supported". Now since Manta is part of IBM it'd be great if we can find a way to do this...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted