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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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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.

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Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
3 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Optimizing WML Deep Learning Resource Allocation and Scheduling in watsonx.ai

Resource allocation limits: Set GPU or resource limits for each watsonx.ai project to ensure efficient resource usage across multiple projects. This will prevent any one project from monopolizing resources and ensure that other projects can run sm...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Under review

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Content selector length in Workspace

when the book names are long, in the top bar to switch between tabs the names are cut and some dots are showed (attached an example) Ideally we would like to have the ability to change the lenght of the navigation area in the bar to allow to see f...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If QWT and SQL Tuning Services could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protect...
23 days ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

IDAA - Db2 Accelerator for z/OS - MFA implementation similar to HMA (HMC)

Regulatory requirements are requiring our organization to work with all vendors and try and have all products and tooling that requires logon and password to be MFA compliant. Recently we implemented IDAA on Linux One and our IDAA and Hardware tea...
19 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Online conversion of index to partitioned index

Db2 13 Function level 500 introduces the online conversion of tables from growth-based (PBG) to range-based (PBR) partitions. The conversion alter is pending DDL applied by the REORG TABLESPACE utility. There is a need to also convert one or more ...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide industry standard support for MFA on Replication Centre

We use a wide range of IBM Db2 tools and products and the vast majority of them already support MFA security. MFA is a defacto industry security standard and we would expect all IBM products to support it. We see this as a major deficiency in the ...

Data gate instance be able to write on Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage class (e.g. Storage ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review