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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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INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

PAW Action Button Prompt and Response Parameters

The recent enhancements have made action buttons in PAW powerful, but they still lack 2 key pieces of functionality that are available in PAfE and Websheets. The ability to prompt a user if they are sure they want to run a process (Confirmation)...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

SFTP Client Origin: Additional Offset Management Configuration Options

The current offset behavior of the SFTP Client origin is based on two checks after a file is processed: The stage stores the filename and modification timestamp of the last processed file in the offset. When new files arrive, the stage evaluates e...
20 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Format Manager - Copy/Paste Format from one cube view to another

We need the ability to create a 'standard' format in the 'format manager' for a cube view and apply it across pre-existing cube views. Manually updating pre-existing reports with the new capabilities provided in the format manager is extremely tim...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Expanded Locking Options and Partial Load Capability in DataGate GUI

Current Behavior: When executing a LOAD operation through the DataGate GUI, the only available option is a full load with row-level locking. This limits flexibility for use cases that require partial data loading or alternative locking mechanisms ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Submitted

Keep and maintain at least 2 or 3 Python and R runtime versions in each release of CP4D

Multiple companies and industries work with CP4D for data science models. These models use multiple versions of Python or R runtimes and different open-source libraries that are compatible with the runtime version used to build the model. Clients ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 2 Not under consideration

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DSNTEP2/4 should issue Timestamp before and after SQL statement execution, or even better the delta ow long a SQL statement needs

If a lot of SQL statements are executed in one job and step, it is very difficult to find the SQL which takes the long time. IFCID traces on DB2 must be started to neil this down. OR another example is the fact that e.g. the first ALTER in a seque...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review