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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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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...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

The installation panel does not show the accelerator name

The name of the accelerator shows in the “upload, validate and apply” section and it is on the second page. It would be nice to see the accelerators name on the top of the panel.
9 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA installation panel lists ipaddresses and userid and password. - does not validate ipaddress

One of the IDAA installation panel list ipaddresses and userid and password. - it seems like the UI validates the useid and password, but does not validate ipaddress. And by mistake if you put in the wrong ip address (browser auto populates the ip...
9 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should support Db2 LUW databases that use a centralized KMIP keystore

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. Recently we converted our Db2 LUW database to use a centralized KMIP keysto...
2 months ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted