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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 the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

More control over WLM for Db2 Warehouse on Cloud

We are running a large data warehouse in the IBM Cloud for the Your Learning application. We sometimes struggle with queries which are put into Queued status. We would like to have more control over the WLM in order to manage our workload.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 1 Needs more information

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Import description field from Datastage

When the Datastage Next Gen Connector was developed, it was designed without taking into account the description field. So when we import lineage and metadata into IKC that information is missing.
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

AI-Powered Legacy Java Modernization with Integrated Observability Insights in watsonx Code Assistant

I propose adding an AI-Powered Legacy Java Modernization with Integrated Observability Insights capability to watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java to help organizations make more informed modernization decisions by connecting Java code analy...

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Not under consideration

Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

Manta OpenLineage| Manta not able to correctly recognize sas technology/table definition in lineage

To fix the following issue (ref case number: TS021700396):While scanning an OpenLineage JSON event where a Snowflake table is the input and a SAS table is the output, Manta successfully generates the lineage. However, the SAS table is incorrectly ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

IBM Db2 Bridge support on AIX and SuSE Linux (SLES)

We use Db2 LUW exlusively on the AIX and SuSE Linux platforms. It would be very advantagous and a mandatory framework conditon in our company, if Db2 Bridge will also supported on this platforms.
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge 2 Under review