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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    Code Explain should support macros

    Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

    Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

    Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Feature of TERRITORY Improvement Request for Db2 on IBM Cloud

    When the service is deployed, the territory is automatically set to US, which prevents them from using the service as intended. Any workaround that would allow setting the territory to Japan is required by the end of April. Alternatively, if there...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

    Provide an estimated Bob Coins cost before running a task

    Before starting a Bob task, users should be able to see an estimate of how many Bob Coins the operation is expected to consume. Today, the actual cost of a complex task can be difficult for a user to anticipate. This becomes particularly important...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Allow administrators/users to mandate a specific model

    IBM Bob intelligently selects AI models depending on the task, which is a useful default behaviour. However, enterprise customers should also have the ability to require a specific model for certain tasks, projects, repositories, or categories of ...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Provide model-level traceability for every IBM Bob task

    IBM Bob can dynamically select different AI models depending on the task being performed. This is a very interesting approach from a performance and cost perspective, but enterprise users should be able to know which model was actually used for ea...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

    Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

    Restore database to another Db2 server with different endianness

    My customer is using RHEL Big Endian Linux on PPC and Db2 10.5 which is end of support April 30, 2020. They have no option but to migrate to RHEL Little Endian. They cannot simply backup and restore the database and are looking at using Db2move wh...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

    We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

    There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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