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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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    Enable Bob to perform live web searches as a first‑class agent capability.

    Without live web search, Bob cannot reliably assist with modern engineering workflows involving fast‑changing libraries, APIs, vulnerabilities, or documentation, limiting usefulness for developers, consultants, and platform teams; Bob should expos...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Add a BobShell configuration option to explicitly disable built‑in tools (e.g., read_file, write_file) at runtime, similar to --disabled-tools flags offered by other agentic coding assistants.

    Enterprise customers need deterministic and policy‑compliant agent behavior, and the ability to disable specific built‑in tools allows security, platform, and compliance teams to constrain Bob’s capabilities in regulated, air‑gapped, or controlled...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

    Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

    Differentiate Runtime and Design-Time Lineage in Manta UI

    Manta currently displays lineage generated from OpenLineage RunEvent (runtime) and JobEvent (design-time) in the same way with no visual distinction between them. This makes it difficult for users to tell whether lineage represents what actually r...
    8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Support Column-Level Lineage in Manta to Alation Export for OpenLineage

    Manta can ingest column-level lineage from OpenLineage, but this details is not preserved when exporting to Alation. As a result, only table-level lineage is visible in Alation and critical attribute-level relationships are lost. We propose enhanc...
    8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

    Provide certificate based authentication

    We'd like to see certificate based authentication being offered for DB2 LUW and DSM.
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

    We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

    Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Planned for future release

    Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

    Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

    Make RESYNC port secured

    Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

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