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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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Removing LDAP Dependency to migrate IGC to IKG

The proposed enhancement aims to remove the constraint within the migration tool, eliminating the requirement for both the source and destination systems to be connected to the same LDAP. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for clients in ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support for 4K Displays in Planning Analytics for Excel

Please add support for 4k/hiDpi/variable display density to Planning Analytics for Excel. The user has a display at 3840 x2160. The title element boxes when in Exploration view are very small as is the arrow to open the drop down to select an elem...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Active Tenant Selector in the Menu Bar for Planning Analytics for Excel (PaFE) V12

Dear IBM team, It would be a valuable addition to include an "Active Tenant Selector" directly in the menu bar of PaFE V12. This feature would display the currently connected tenant at a glance and incorporate a convenient combo box for quick swit...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

after bind/rebind with VALIDATE(RUN) authorization check of static sql is performed at run time. We need an ability to define, this check against the SQL authorization ID, not package owner

If a plan or package is bound with VALIDATE(RUN), authorization checking is still performed at bind time, but the referenced objects and the privileges required to use these objects need not exist at this time. If any privilege required for a stat...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

The deployment space should support custome container image.

My customers wanted to deploy llama-3-3-70b on CP4D 5.0.2 as custom foundation model.But it failed because new architectural change (vLLM) was introduced in this llama model that is not supported by CP4D 5.0.2.There is no valid workaround for this...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration