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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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WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Re-Allow Post-Deployment Updates to db cfg / dbm cfg / Registry (db2set) Settings Through the Db2uInstance CR to Support GitOps and ArgoCD Workflows

Problem Statement Starting with Db2 12.1.5, the Db2uInstance admission webhook enforces a restriction whereby dbConfig, dbmConfig, and registry (db2set) settings can only be specified during initial Db2uInstance creation. Subsequent updates to the...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 1 Submitted

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Online reorg with discard and allow parallel processing on data partitioned tables.

Db2 on Z has the capability. Would be implemented the same way by passing a where clause as a parameter to the reorg command. Anyone who has very large data partitioned tables that will require purging of data. Also allow online reorg to remove re...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on AWS RDS 0 Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Provide more granularity writing to the db2opstats.log

Currently the db2opstats log is either ON or OFF via the registry variable DB2_OPTSTATS_LOG. The suggestion is to add granularity options 1-4 similar to the same options for the db2diag.log . This would allow users some level of control on the amo...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Submitted

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.,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Db2 Backup - Support for Google Cloud Storage

Db2 supports backup to S3 compatible interfaces. Support for Google Cloud Object Storage is required for some clients. Requesting enhancement to Db2 backup so a choice of cloud object storage can be leveraged. In this case Google Cloud Object Stor...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration