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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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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...
28 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...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Make EXPLAIN to work out of the box instead of manually maintaining EXPLAIN tables etc

In PostgreSQL I can just execute: EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM some_table and everything works out of the box, which is very convenient. In IBM Db2 it is required to create EXPLAIN tables, procedures etc basically execute EXPLAIN.DDL script from sqllib/m...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Add database level privileges to SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES view

When ever I would like to quickly get privileges for some user I can quickly write simple SQL: SELECT * FROM SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES This system view is excellent, it displays schema privileges, table privileges etc. The only issue is that database l...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Add USAGE for schema level security like USAGEIN schema

I would like to set to some database users to have INSERT on schema privilege. I have set: GRANT INSERTIN ON SCHEMA myschema TO GROUP myusergroup; Now inserts on some tables works just fine, but on some of them I get error: SQL Error [42501]: The ...
28 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

Adjust the column widths of the displayed table

When displaying a list of objects in the chat window, if the number of keys (columns) exceeds a certain threshold, all column widths become extremely narrow.Unless we can adjust the displayed column widths beforehand or control them on the screen,...
28 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Make CDC throw an event and bring down the subscription on IBMi CDC agent to ensure it no longer consumes CPU cycles

We understand that if a table has got a DDL change, all subscriptions in which the table is used, have to be updated. But since human mistakes are possible, this high CPU consumption could be prevented if in the continuous mirroring been started a...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Not under consideration

Search Select Prompt User Interface is very poor.

The Search and Select prompt user interface is very poor and could do with a redesign to make it better. Some of the basic flaws are: On the search side, the Select all is a check box ui at the top of the list.One the selected side, the Select all...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release