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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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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...
18 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 1 Functionality already exists

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

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

It would be really helpful for WXCA4Z to be able to ingest Assembler language code and be able to explain it. It would also be helpful to be able to transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++.

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...

Data modules connection to AI assistant directly

Can we Right click on any data module or shortcut of data module can we connect to AI assistant directly in Cognos
3 days ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

A integrated solution for connecting external databases.

Today if you need a external database connection for Planning Analytics on CP4D, you need to provision a Windows server to run the ODBC connector to act as an intermediary between your ODBC data and Planning Analytics. Planning Analytics will poin...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted