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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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Db2 for z/OS – InSync: make the LogReaderTask commit interval configurable

In replication scenarios with Integrated Synchronization (InSync) (Db2 Analytics Accelerator / Data Gate), LogReaderTask needs to access compression dictionaries to decompress log records. In contention situations, this can result in decompression...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

Represent times displayed as local time

We currently see a number of datetime stamps displayed in GMT versus local timezones for various cpdctl dsjob commands. Below is a list of commands, as well as in the CPD UI where we see this behavior. From cpdctl dsjob - list-scheduled-jobs list-...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Please port the implementation of ego service InstanceToSlotRatio to symphony 7.3.2 fp3 so that we can utilize the feature without having to use conductor license

Please port the implementation of ego service InstanceToSlotRatio to symphony 7.3.2 fp3 so that we can utilize the feature without having to use conductor license
6 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Require to support open JAVA JDK21 and JDK25 for symphony applications

Our application CVA will face out open java lower version < 17 per company policy, and moving onto Jdk21 and Jdk25 soon.
6 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

The scale profile needs to be able to match the cluster wide resource management including pods and storage.

Customer has WxO scaling profile set as Level 3 but it was still not enough for resiliency and redundancy. According to this documentation, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/software-hub/5.2.x?topic=services-manually-scaling, level 3 scale setting can h...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

implicitly created object enhancement

For costumers with strong naming convention in object creation, it would be useful to define a template, which will be used to create implicit objects. In our case, we are affected by implicit created LOB tables of PbG tablespaces: Base objects: C...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Spark application should transition to "Failed" state when it crashes

If the spark-master container restarts due to OOM etc, the spark-workers will no longer be able to reconnect to the master, causing the application to stop processing data. When this occurs, the Web UI will still display the application status as ...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

Allow parsing of binary formats

We do multiple integrations that require transforming binary data to XML/JSON for ingestion into SaferPayments. It would be great if we can either extend MCI processing with a custom code parser or allow defining a custom transformer, based on DFD...
about 1 month ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted