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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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Folder-Level Access Control in CP4D Volumes

Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D), access control for data stored in persistent volumes (PVs/PVCs) can only be managed at the volume level. This means that any user with access to the volume can view and modify all folders and files with...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...

Exclude dead code from various data/variable analysis

Various reports and analysis are useful to understand how variables are used in the application. Field Usage Report, Field Expansion Report, Where Used Variables (but report and tree view). All of these are useful to understand impact of changes, ...

Authentication API support for additional content types

The CP4D authentication API only accepts the content type application\json Customers identity provider can only send the request with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Under review

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...

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review

Reduce messages for 00F30086 and others

Reduce messages for 00F30086 and others We have corporate policy affecting security on usage from a userID. ID are SUSPENDED for inactivity after 100 days, and DELETED after 500 days. Since applications may be stable and not used in all ...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Credentials from HashCorp Vault (Data Gate for watsonx)

Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil, is known for its advanced cloud adoption, managing over 8,000 AWS accounts. This model, while providing agility and independence, also increases the complexity and potential security risks. To mitigate the...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review