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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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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

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

Product improvement request for Netezza SaaS

SQLEXT to be renamed to SQLEXTDB to be aligned with Netezza Performance Server Custom function ISDATE to be delivered with SQLEXTDB as default Set SEARCH_PATH for SQLEXTDB = SQLEXTDB,SPSS,INZA
4 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Modify RQSTWLB behavior when JDBC connections use mismatched DDF alias and port combinations

When there are multiple DDF aliases using different ports, it is currently possible to connect to db2 using the wrong port and alias combination. Ideally this connection would terminate with an error instead of connecting, but that may be too sign...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

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

Modify Messaging to Clarify Why a Table Is Being Dropped and Recreated

When reading the output from the compare portion of Alter reports, it isn't always clear what part of a change requires a drop and recreate of objects. We are making a change to a column from NOT NULL to WITH DEFAULT NULL, and the wording isn't re...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Control the conversational UX: font sizes / density of content

A more polished, user-centered experience • Giving the users agency to control the settings of the conversational interface • Offering visual customization ability to our Clients Allow users to choose comfortable content presentation settings: Vis...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Needs more information

Authentication API support for additional content types

The CP4D authentication API only accepts the content type application\json Customers identity provider can only send the request with application/x-www-form-urlencoded
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release