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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support of OpenText as Source in UDI

The customer is interested in adopting UDI but requires OpenText as data source, which is currently unsupported. This limitation prevents integration of critical enterprise content and blocks broader adoption.

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Db2 Backup - Support for Google Cloud Storage

Db2 supports backup to S3 compatible interfaces. Support for Google Cloud Object Storage is required for some clients. Requesting enhancement to Db2 backup so a choice of cloud object storage can be leveraged. In this case Google Cloud Object Stor...
about 1 hour ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Submitted

Dominik Baer

Operator V2 doesn't support changing volume size for DB2 containers. We have storage scale and changing the PV works, but DB2 doesn't acknowledge the resizing (enlarging) of the volume.This is one of many meaningful infrastructure related config p...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Container Submitted

Enhance Utility History Tables to record DSNTIAUL unloads

I am missing that the unloads made with DSNTIAUL be recorded at the Utilities History tables. In fact, I came here to vote an idea like this, taking for granted that someone had already opened it asking for this. :-) Sorry if there's already one, ...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Display CDDS command

We opened both TS022609404 & TS022550954 and had a question on the ability to add a DISPLAY CDDS. We understand there is no current such command, but you can issue a DISPLAY LOG command and get a DSNJ375I message giving the CDDS name and the m...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes similar to how a status flag is provided for tablespaces in SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE. The 'STATUS' column in SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES does not provide the same type of information about index statuses as th...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Customization of Fields Returned from the Knowledge Base

Currently, the informational agents in watsonx.orchestrate retrieve only the title and main content of chunks from the knowledge base. However, there are other pertinent information that they would like to have access to for certain use cases, suc...
19 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Per-Table Replication Timestamp Exposure

Data Gate Administrator / DBA want the Data Gate UI and Monitoring API to explicitly expose the exact replication timestamp (replication_capture_point / last_replicated_change_timestamp) individually for each replicated table, rather than just as ...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted