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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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

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...
26 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 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

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...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

End User UI enhancement (Custom charts)

Problem Statement: Currently, we provide clients the flexibility to choose their own risk matrices. However, when using the dashboard chart, the filter options display extra values and expose certain values that users should not have access to. Wi...
12 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Support the use of UV instead of Anaconda

UV is very quickly becoming the new industry standard for managing Python packages. It is extremely fast compared to Anaconda and in our HPC plaform this would resolve many performance-related issues in Conda package/env deployments and updates. O...
20 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

Set expiration date for API Key

Set expiration date for API Key. It would be nice to be able to set an expiration date or let it not expire.
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Extract lineage for SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)

Our organization uses SAP BW to store data. We do not have a method to extract data lineage from it. The ASK: Add support for data lineage for SAP BW
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

upload/download feature for List within the model in AD

This is regarding an import or export feature for Lists (within the model). Previously we were using Risk Lists (on the Monitoring tab) and that has the capability to both upload and download its contents which made our weekly refresh and monthly ...
5 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Better dbaccess output formats

CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
5 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted