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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
about 2 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Guardrails for blocking content in German Langauge

Currently, Guardrails for blocking incoming and outgoing messages from a LLM are only available in English. It would be very useful to be able to block certain content in German language, too.
5 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

HPU 'FASTU-DELIMITED' output format delimiter issue

We are in the process of converting CA DB2 Fast Unload jobs to IBM HPU and got the below issue for atleast 16 Batch jobs and impacting the migration to IBM DB2 tools. Faced the delimiter issue with IBM HPU as below :- CA Fast Unload output - '000R...
5 days ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Submitted

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.

Support Apache Hive connector in AutoAI with Kerberos Authentication

We are exploring ways to utilize the low-code tools available in CP4D to process the data straight from our main data source with is a Cloudera cluster. We connect to it using Apache Hive with Kerberos Credentials. Unfortunately we have seen mixed...
6 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

Db2 PureScale need to support "QUIESCE TABLESPACES FOR TABLE ... " command

We use the QUIESCE TABLESPACE FOR TABLE command in order to setup a "read only mode" on various tablespace after a DB has been cloned (SET WRITE SUSPEND, db2inidb ...). This is very important for us to protect us from unwanted data modifications a...
10 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Submitted

Connect to SAP Datasphere as a datasource for connection and for IKC.

SAP Datasphere is a new data warehouse from SAP competing with Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Azure Redshift, Db2 and other data catalog solutions for SAP data. Clients who are deploying SAP would use Datasphere for connecting, managing, cataloging a...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 1 Submitted

DB2 Developer Extension for z/OS - add ability to copy and import/export existing connections

Adding a Db2 z/OS connection requires optional parameters for SSL connections which are often missed when setting up the connection. Adding the ability to copy an existing connection would allow a new connection to be set up more quickly. The copy...
27 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable different sampling methods in Data Refinery

In the current version of Data Refinery we have noticed that there's no way to change the sampling method for the source data. It's always top rows only. With the additional limitation of 10000 samples only this makes the Data Refinery Flow view s...
9 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Enable Individual Storage Volume Configuration During Planning Analytics Workspace Updates on OpenShift

Currently, when updating Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) on OpenShift, the PA_KUBE_STORAGE_SIZE variable in the paw.env file applies uniformly to all storage volumes (MongoDB, Redis, etc.). This limitation creates issues when certain volumes ha...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted