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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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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Watson Code Assistant Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks. This will improve developer productivity immensely.
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Consistency of the Legend in the different views when on the same indicator

In a same book, or even in a same view, it would be really helpful having always the same color used for the same indicator ; and not changing on each graph. Color of the legend should be consistent when refering to the same indicator. Indeed, tod...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
24 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

LSF to track and report IO usage per job

Disk space is a valuable resource like memory or GPU/CPU/slots. Many IC design applications consume significant disk space when writing simulation results to disk. Tracking disk usage or I/O rate **PER JOB** will allow cluster administrators to mo...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Needs more information

Generate PDF documents from documents stored in OpenPages

A new feature for converting Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF would be very useful. Users can upload documents in various formats to OpenPages, but reports for regulatory bodies must be generated in PDF format. With this feature, the...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Unconfigure Langfuse Observability

I have configured Langfuse observability using the instructions on this page: https://developer.watson-orchestrate.ibm.com/llm/observability I would like to turn off the configuration, or unconfigure it. I would like there to be a command to uncon...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration