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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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Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Automatically clean up old job instances

CBRE has lots of old job instances as a result of frequent Kubernetes redeployments to deal with a separate product defect related to jobs being stuck in an ACTIVATING state. They were trying to delete them iteratively through the UI but kept hitt...
6 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
6 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

SQLOpt Provide AP index advisor and query rewrite function

Hi dear team, In current DB2 zAI SQLOpt component, we have recommendation only on AP. we wish index advisor and query rewrite can be added in recommendation analysis. Thanks Yuli
9 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP visualization ability and explanation on recommendation

Hi dear team, In current DB2 AI for z/OS SQL optimization component, we can check AP recommendations, with savings, and SQL statement etc. but it's not easy to understand AP detail with columns. can you please provide visualization ability on each...
9 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Central location for cpd-cli-workspace directory and logging of the cpd-cli

When running the cpd-cli command a "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created in the current working directory. Looking for an environmental variable that can be used to define where the "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created when running the cpd-...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

Improve results when using Batch deploy mode for Machine Learning Models

After you create a machine learning model (using AutoAI, for example), you can choose to deploy it in online or batch mode. When someone runs the Batch deploy mode against a dataset (a CSV file, for example), the results usually show only the pred...
13 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted