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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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Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Putting Ai over a hash network or CubesOS

I believe the idea to put Ai onto CubesOS, as pertaining to bootup phase and thereon, unto eliminating interference by manipulating prompts or while Ai is being utilized. I would constantly see misinterpreted or censorship like qualities due to ba...
28 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Convert Db2 managed nonUTS workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE by online REORG

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing nonUTS segmented workfiles. Wouldn't it be possible to convert them by ALTER and online REO...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Build Dynamic filters using WatsonX

Not all business users are able to create filters with their desired conditions directly in the Grid view. To simplify this, we want to enable users to input their filter criteria in natural language through WatsonX. WatsonX will then interpret th...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Watsonx.ai BYOM support more model framework

As more LLM models being released, our clients wonder if we can support more LLM frameworks. To be more specific: Llama 4 Maverick 400 B 4bit / Deepseek 671B 4bit, Llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1, InternVL-3-38B, jina-embeddings-v3 I understand w...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Python notebook support checkpoint for deep learning training

Our Watsonx.ai has built-in Python notebook for machine learning or deep learning development. As more use cases now train based on deep learning, our client wonder if it is possible to add auto (or some semi-auto) check point helping deep learnin...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review