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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    Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

    When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

    Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

    Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

    Request that Manta Automatic Data Lineage add support for OAuth 2.0 authentication (e.g., service-to-service OAuth tokens or service principal OAuth flow) for Databricks connections in addition to or in place of Personal Access Tokens (PATs).

    Databricks strongly recommends using OAuth access tokens instead of PATs for security, token refresh, and credential management best practices. OAuth offers stronger security and better lifecycle management than long-lived PATs, which are consider...
    8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

    purescale support HADR ROS

    System: DB2 LUW pureScale Actor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environment Now db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature ...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

    Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

    in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

    I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

    Offer an opt‑in premium “Robert mode” that uses higher‑capability model combinations at increased Bobcoin cost.

    Enterprise customers are willing to pay materially more for higher reasoning depth, reliability, and autonomy for complex, multi‑repo work, and a premium tier gives teams and consultancies access to stronger model mixes while maintaining cost tran...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Provide a native mode to run Bob as an HTTP server exposing RESTful APIs.

    An API‑first deployment allows Bob to be embedded into portals, internal tools, and automated systems, benefiting platform teams and partners orchestrating agent workflows at scale; this should include authenticated REST endpoints for job submissi...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Add hooks support to let customers execute custom logic at defined points in Bob’s lifecycle (pre‑run, post‑run, tool invocation, failure events).

    Hooks enable enterprise integration for logging, policy enforcement, approvals, and observability, benefiting platform, DevOps, and security teams embedding Bob into existing pipelines; Bob should expose configurable pre‑run, post‑run, tool‑call, ...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Introduce skills.md support so Bob can load persistent, user‑defined skills and behaviors from the repository.

    Skills files allow teams to codify repeatable workflows, conventions, and agent behaviors that improve consistency and productivity across large codebases, benefiting enterprise engineering teams and consultancies; Bob should automatically load sk...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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