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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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ability to Recover multiple tablespaces to last full copy in a single statement

The current Recovery Utility syntax does not allow multiple tablespaces to be recovered to their own respective last full image copy in a single recover statement. This can be useful for resetting test environments or even in production for a pre ...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Official Support and Optimization for Master-Detail Relationships with Data Modules

Currently, master-detail optimization is not officially supported for data modules. While a workaround exists, we require this feature to be officially supported to ensure a reliable and performant analytics experience for our customers. Business ...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Request for an improvement to Passticket authentication to use Ticket Enhanced instead of Legacy.

We have IDAA v7 and z/OS v3.1 installed. To connect to z/OS, we currently use a legacy ticket, as recommended in the documentation. However, our security team has indicated that, starting with z/OS v2.5, legacy tickets are deprecated and we must u...
15 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Distribute Db2 Connect “unlimited” license artefacts in a huge environment via z/OS or Db2 for z/OS tooling instead of db2connectactivate.sh

The documented way to “install” a Db2 Connect unlimited license in a Db2 for z/OS system or data sharing group is db2connectactivate.sh. To activate Db2 Connect unlimited for a huge number of Db2 for z/OS systems, a central LUW (or USS) instance w...
22 days ago in Db2 2 Under review

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
29 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 0

LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

Advanced JSON functionality

It would be great if the JSON functionality could be expanded. Currently, we have the problem that Db2 doesn't support the 'nested path' JSON expression. For example, create table msct.json_test (id integer not null, json_data CLOB(10485760 OCTETS...
2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Agent Release Details Display

Display key agent metadata on the frontend, including the internal name (not just the display name), release version, and release date. This way, users can easily identify which version of each agent is currently active across the Chat, Manage, an...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration