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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    Add new behavior to REORG TEMPLATE STACK to take advantage of parallel processing for PBR/PBG at partition level while using ICLIMIT_TAPE

    LISTDEF REO11002 INCLUDE TABLESPACE DRATEEM1.SEMHNSA PARTLEVEL(549:551) PBR NPSI ICLIMIT_TAPE 2 PARALLEL (30) STACK NO behavior There will be no UNLOAD/RELOAD parallelism due to STACK YES being on the TEMPLATE for the Image Copy even though ICL...
    10 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

    Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
    24 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

    Provide unified UI for configuring and running CP4D backup/restore

    The current process for the backup/restore of CP4D is complex and requires a number of steps that are needed for setting up the backup/restore. Any of these steps can go wrong. Just for the initial setup, it took multiple working sessions between ...
    3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    PAW "Applications and Plans" - Section Hierarchy or Subsections within main Section (see attached file for illustration)

    Is there a way to add Sections within a Section (i.e. Subsections), please see attached illustration for explanation of request. Thank you
    3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Provide patch for bypassing SD for recursive workload. This is available in 7.3.2

    We have recursive workload apps which creates thousands of sessions to another app which causes SD to become unresponsive and reject connection requests. This patch will help resolve this issue. This is available on 7.3.2 as per Directly connectin...
    3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Under review

    FAP application to support multi-subnet failover

    Hi, After Q1 2025 our team proceeded with network migration to greenfield, after which our Cognos MSSQL server went from this setup: one primary, one backup; to this setup: cluster server - when one is in maintenance or overloaded, the other one t...
    3 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

    New functionality to lock the model revision

    We have faced multiple issues/application crash with users trying to use a challenger which was having a config related issue (PMML file). We have received guidance from IBM on multiple cases that user shouldn't use the revision but its difficult ...
    3 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

    New Maintenance mode Administration settings which will lock all maintenance activities on the cluster

    Currently during upgrades or installs to avoid user actions and system related maintenance function we manually disable the golive permissions at the role level and disable EOD, etc. We need a administration settings Maintenance Mode which when en...
    3 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

    Stop, start and restart options for the db2 as a service instance

    Stopping and starting instances can help optimize resource utilization and One of the primary advantages is cost savings. once the instance is stopped, cpu and memory can released back to the pool in the backend. and during the start operation, it...
    4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

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