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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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Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
9 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Add "Send Test Email" button in Plan Workflow – Email Notification Step

Dear team, Description: Please add a "Send Test Email" button directly inside the Email Notification configuration of a Plan Workflow. Current limitation (PAW 3.1.6): When configuring the email notification step in a Plan, there is no way to quick...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

High Availability for Db2 Tuning Services

Db2 Tuning services is currently a standalone started task. We will be integrating Tuning Services into a production operational system, to provide guardrails for AI generated queries against operational data stores. As it will form part of an ope...
5 days ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Implementation of WxO Guardrails for workflow

Implementation of the guardrail for workflow, should be implemented using the ADK as a pre‑invoke plug‑in; it cannot be configured through the IBM console UI. Currently there is no documentation or any clear instruction to guide developer to know ...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

IBM CP4D Users statistics reporting

Currently in CP4D user admin session has very limited user CP4D usage statistics - previous session and just a green color showing user active.
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review