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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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Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

independent log Reader at Queue level incase of STARTQ command

we came to know that CDC will stand up an independent logstream to play catch and then merge them once current. That prevents to catchup impacts. If IBM could implement similar functionality in QReplication as they have in CDC, it would be a signi...

AI for Inclusion: How Intelligent Systems Can Transform Special Needs, Families, and the Future of Human Development

What if intelligence could be designed to care? Across the world, families of children with special needs navigate fragmented systems—schools that don’t speak to clinics, therapies that reset with every transition, and data that disappears just wh...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Deprecated throw call

There are throw (...) in symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2/include/soam.h. This pattern repeats on many lines. throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. Please remove the throw part. There are ways to make it compatible with all 11:3
4 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

More Granular Editor Permission in Data Assets

A business-specialist IKC user today cannot securely contribute to the catalog because, by granting them editor permissions, in addition to assigning glossary terms to columns and editing additional information, they can also alter the data classe...
4 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Manta SAP BO Scanner should support SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 Version 14.4.0.5411.4

Background: Manta SAP BO Scanner currently does not support scanning of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 (Version: 14.4.0.5411.4) and fails to scan.Our organization migrated from SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 Support Pack 4 Patch 8 (Vers...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Db2 Analytics Accelerator should be catching up changes dynamically on status of HW resources(NVME,OSA,ROCE,Ficon) over LinuxONE when resource come back online after toggle operation.

For LinuxONE systems, MCL or failure of some HW parts sometimes leads us to toggle operation to be able to fix or enable HW resources. What we have noticed is when HW resources (NVME,OSA,ROCE,Ficon) toggled offline over LinuxONE, Db2 Analytics Acc...
4 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Recovery Expert to generate native IBM Redirected recovery for LOB/XML objects

At the moment Recovery Expert does not generate a normal IBM Recovery based redirected recovery but generates it's own version of change accumulation based recovery solution. It will be nice to have the option to regenerate IBM recover which will ...
8 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0