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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Usage Statics for Workspace Assets

Would like to capture usage statistic of dashboards and other PAW assets, specifically last time accessed, last accessed by. Ideally, we'd capture all usage statistics over a set time period and have the ability to reset those counters.
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Handling multiple locations of backups

Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Certificate authentication for DB2 LUW

In a heterogeneous environment, certificate authentication enables access to numerous services; among other things, it should also be possible for DB2 clients to connect to a DB2 database and to grant the user identified by the certificate the app...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Add support for heterogenous DDL replication from a DB2 LUW source to a DB2 LUW target

Our customers use CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 LUW 11.5. When adding new column or altering column in these replication tables, they hope to minimise the replication downtime between the source and target DB. However, the CDC only supp...
25 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enable Chat with Docs in the embedded chat

As Chat with Docs is available in the Orchestrate UI , hence its a necessity as the same should be available in the embedded chat as well
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Notebook functionality within Orchestrate UI

Inspired by the release of Open Notebook, similar functionality within the Orchestrate environment would be powerful, especially if it can connect to WatsonX.ai-hosted models, and/or use the Orchestrate AI Gateway. The idea would be to create a pr...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Include Custom Runtime Environments in Deployment Space Export/Import

When users migrate Deployment Spaces between IBM Cloud Pak for Data environments (e.g., for disaster recovery or CI/CD purposes), custom runtime environments used by assets are not included in the export/import process. This limitation causes impo...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enabling the use of hidden columns

This would enable sorting according to a different criterion than the one displayed. Example: The product is displayed, but it should be sorted according to the product key. In addition, these values could be used in the drill-through to the repor...
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted