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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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Allowing user limit the amout/type of GPU used in Python notebook

We are allowing users limiting CPU/Memory in Python notebook inside Watson Studio. However, as GPUs are becoming scarce resources, it would be very helpful if we can create Python env template, while choosing the amount/type of GPUs that can be us...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Visual Studio Code (vscode) extension for watsonx.data support for Spark 4

Per https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/IBM.watsonx-data/changelog v1.2.0 we expected to see support for Spark 4 engines which would match the watsonx.data release 2.2.1 support for Spark 4. However, the extension does not actually provide ...
2 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Functionality already exists

Please support LockTimeout parameter in IBM data server provider for .NET

It's currently not possible to configure the LockTimeout Parameter in .net applications on client side (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=keywords-locktimeout). This would help us to optimize our environment.
9 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the duplicate detection in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Request for ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler

Customer requested ADDI to support the detection of unused routines in assembler as well as COBOL and PL/I by the end of 2025.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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.
26 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...
26 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Workflow cannot auto refresh when changes are made

We are able to fix issues (example: the engagement team's permissions as subscribers) but until someone MANUALLY refreshes the workflow on EACH affected use case - the change is not effective. Then, there is also no option to auto refresh all use ...
about 2 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted