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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Add ability to specify no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings

Currently, there is no easy way to add no-proxy list when applying cluster HTTP proxy settings: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.0.x?topic=environment-applying-cluster-http-proxy-settings It requires modifying a proxy-envs.json and...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Allow formatting of calculated and read-only cells

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) by default calculated cells are shown with a green background, and read-only cells are shown with a gray background. This feature is very useful because it stops users from trying to enter values in calculated...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Removed object types after Db2 13

At IDUG in Valencia Haakon Roberts informed us that some object types and a few other things has to be removed before we can go to the version after Db2 13. These are Simple tablespaces Segmented Tablespaces Classic partitioned tablespaces Basic (...
18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

TLS 1.3 Support

Hi QMF Team!TLS 1.3 Support is being a key to increase more and more Security. According to IBM CISO at January of 2024 will be a requirement. Reference: https://pages.github.ibm.com/ciso-psg/main/supplemental/acceptable_encryption.html#TLSVersion...
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

HELM Charts for DataStage Deployment

The impact right now is to change the process and add additional workarounds for datastage at the enterprise level. As a organization, HELM has been adopted as a standard since its an industry level standard for quite sometime. This also allow mor...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

List down all the patches installed with date time from the time of installation of CPD

Reference IBM case:- TS017418161 We need help in listing out patches for CP4D, we don’t have direct option like On-prem DS11.7 where version.xml would lists all patches with installation date. We would like to know detailed steps on how to retriev...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Indicate whether the fallback SPE for Db2 13 migration is installed

As a user planning to migrate to Db2 13 I already activated V12R1M510 on my Db2 12 subsystem. However, I also want to make sure that I have the fallback SPE PH37108 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH37108 installed. Could this information b...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Planned for future release

Db2 profiles - Enable monitoring and enforcement of AUTHIDs

Db2 v13 offers new feature of Db2 profiles to support monitoring and enforcement of TLS secure connections. Please add ability to do this at AUTHID level. Some apps and users have converted and we could put in a profile to ensure only secure conne...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release