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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

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

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

A new role that allows users to create definitions but not execute them (not allow quality and monitor quality rule assets)

This new feature will allow for more granular user control, allowing administrators to create different user groups based on this role.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

Add a section that displays all drafts, regardless of the type of artifact.

The customer is requesting this functionality, which was included in previous versions of CP4 Data.
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration