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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.

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New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver on Rocky Linux 8.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 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.
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

"smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

If Db2 boosts a thread, it should have preference over other boost activities (like zIIP boost)

We had the situation that some threads (DDF threads) hold a latch and this latch is required also for Db2 system tasks. The Db2 boost does not help in this situation because we use zIIP boost during IPL. So from a WLM perspective higher prioritize...
27 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable Agent-Level Security Configuration for Embedded Chat in Watson Orchestrate

Tenant-Level Security Scope in Watson Orchestrate Embedded Chat
27 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Under review

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Monitoring of Elastic Search pods can be tricky due to all memory usage

Upon checking the diagnostics and screenshot, this is the warning message: hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-000 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded the 90% threshold. hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-001 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded t...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review