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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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Log Failed LOADS in db history file

Please refer to IBM CASE TS012541333 for further details Db2 database history file registers several SUCCESS and FAILED operations. If a backup has been executed, and if it failed or completed ok . if a restore has been done, and if it failed or c...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Provide for systems symbols in the various field (especially DNS names) on the subsytem registration panel/process

We currently perform monthly BCP testing. in these test, the host name is prepended with information to contact these 'copies'. For everything else this is done by using a system symbol that is normally blank, but in the test environment has a val...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Expose Applications and Plans Overview Metrics for Custom Reporting

Our management team has specific expectations for reports which the native Applications and Plans Overview falls woefully short. It would be extremely helpful if underlying metrics data utilized in this "report" were exposed for users to generate ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Multi-Agent System to Automate the Selection and Evaluation of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

The proposal is to create an ecosystem of agents in Watson Orchestrate capable of working collaboratively to analyze structured and unstructured data, identify business objectives, and automatically select the best Machine Learning or Deep Learnin...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Needs more information

Enable EMR Serverless provisioning via AWS Service Catalog

NatWest are moving towards a standardized approach for service delivery in relation to EMR provisioning. They have released several products through the AWS Service Catalog, requiring users and other platforms to spin up clusters from a predefined...
6 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

Fix "ZRC=0x870F003E=-2029060034=SQLO_QUE_BAD_HANDLE "Bad Queue Handle" - when db2 utility output is piped

This error has been reported since 2014 and still not fixed as of DB2 LUW CSB build level 2503051558 (March 2025 release). You have updated DT236621 as recently as February 2025 and claim this is resolved; but we are at the March 2025 release and ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

Add INCLUDE file capabilities into LSF License Scheduler configuration

The ability to specify the License Scheduler configuration in multiple include files where each include file contains the separate configuration of each independent software vendor. For example, #INCLUDE /path/cadence.lsf.license_scheduler #INCLUD...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0

Ability to restrict custom runtime environment definitions to projects or/ and users

As a service provider I need the ability to define custom runtime environment definitions with different node-affinities. Not every tenant should be able to use e.g., node-affinities to large nodes. Therefore, I need to restrict the usage of custo...
over 3 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Maximal quota for deployment spaces

As a service provider I need control the max resources a tenant is using. In 4.5 you can set quotas for individual services, and on projects to help mitigate unexpected spikes in resource use. This functionality is missing for deployment spaces
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration