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

    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

    Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

    Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

    We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
    7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

    Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

    Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
    27 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 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...
    4 days ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

    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...
    5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

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