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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.

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Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
about 1 year ago in Db2 4 Needs more information

Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

provide notebook CUH usage via API

Our customer tracks CUH usage on project level and wants to access the CUH information over API. In the past we faced some issue with this approach which led to https://bigblue.aha.io/features/UNIFIEDCAT-6005. Implementing this AHA request has als...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

/resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
about 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Display and Manage Persistent Volume (PV/NFS) Information in PAW Administration

For IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge on Cloud Pak for Data , TM1 data is stored on Persistent Volumes backed by NFS, NAS, or CSI storage. However, There is no visibility in PAW about where the data directory is mounted. The admins must run oc comm...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned.
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 1 Submitted

paw search code functionality to be extended to PAfE

Currently in PAW, we can search for a specific keyword within TIs and Rules. While this is a welcome move, it would be great to extend that functionality for PAfE reports being published. This will ensure we can proactively investigate and perform...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Functionality already exists