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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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Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
7 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
2 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide flexible input parameters for ai service deployment

One of the use cases at BMO is to evaluate their RAG-based chatbot with wastsonx governance. Some of their evaluation metrics are OOTB metrics offered by wx.gov and some are being implemented as custom metrics. The custom metrics evaluation are im...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

DS popup feature which identifies changed tables, UMS does not have a pop up

In data studio, there is a pop-up when you log in, that tells you that a table has been altered on the mainframe and will need action in accelerator. UMS/Admin Foundation does not have this pop-up. There is a red dot that indicates a table has bee...
4 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow DNS name in IMS notification exit

Right now, as best as I can see, to use the IMS notification exit you must use the IP address in the assembler exit configuration table (CECE1OPT). This requirement to use IP has been frowned upon by our network team, they would prefer a DNS name....