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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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We need to update the certs in the odm_configuration.customization.trusted_certificate_list with a managed restart of the ODM Pods

At the moment, when we change the certificate we have all pods restarting at the same time. This is causing a huge business impact and requires downtime which is not planned.

paw search code functionality to be extended to PAfE

Currently in PAW, we can search for a specific keyword within TIs and Rules. While this is a welcome move, it would be great to extend that functionality for PAfE reports being published. This will ensure we can proactively investigate and perform...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Integration with Service Now

Integrate with Service now for CPD alerts and warnings so that automatically service now incident get created.
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
4 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically clean up old job instances

CBRE has lots of old job instances as a result of frequent Kubernetes redeployments to deal with a separate product defect related to jobs being stuck in an ACTIVATING state. They were trying to delete them iteratively through the UI but kept hitt...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
7 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP index advisor and query rewrite function

Hi dear team, In current DB2 zAI SQLOpt component, we have recommendation only on AP. we wish index advisor and query rewrite can be added in recommendation analysis. Thanks Yuli
10 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP visualization ability and explanation on recommendation

Hi dear team, In current DB2 AI for z/OS SQL optimization component, we can check AP recommendations, with savings, and SQL statement etc. but it's not easy to understand AP detail with columns. can you please provide visualization ability on each...
10 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Identifying Real Users When Using a Service Account API Key

Currently, when using a service account API key, all threads are created under the "service account user," which prevents distinguishing the actual end user who initiated each thread. We propose adding support for passing user identification metad...
29 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review