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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.

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Add DISCARD row count from Reorg to Utility history SYSOBJEVENTS table.

We would like to record details of discarded rows in the Db2 Utility History Object Event Details table. Capturing this information alongside the utility execution metadata, including the job name and execution details, would provide a valuable au...
1 day ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Improve string filtering options and distinguish lexicographical comparisons in PAW Cube Data Export

Dear team, Description When exporting data from a cube in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Cube Data Export dialog provides comparison operators for string-based values that are primarily associated with numeric comparisons. Lexicographical...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow Optional CHAR-to-VARCHAR Conversion in DataGate to Preserve Application Transparency between Db2 for z/OS and Db2 LUW

When replicating data from Db2 for z/OS (EBCDIC) to Db2 LUW (UTF-8), DataGate increases the length of CHAR columns to accommodate Unicode expansion. While this behavior is understandable from a data integrity perspective, it can introduce applicat...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Tenant support for SQL/QReplication as source and target

The Db2 tenant concept is introduced in IBM Db2 12.1 and define an isolated, unique namespace for user-defined objects within a single database. It sits between the database instance and schema levels, allowing multiple independent groups or appli...
12 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
5 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Submitted

JWT-based authentication for on-prem Db2 LUW using Microsoft Entra ID, with the Db2 Data Server Client retrieving the token from the Microsoft IDP.

Provide native JWT/OIDC token-based authentication support for Db2 LUW on-premises, including modern Authorization Code Flow with PKCE and token validation. Extend the Full OIDC Flow capability by enabling the Db2 Data Server Client to natively in...
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

On/Off toggle for extensions

I would like to be able to toggle on/off various extensions. If I'm troubleshooting and need to turn off extension for a bit, then I have to download and delete, and then upload again to turn on. It would be nice to simply have a on/off toggle.
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Add role to user account table

Within the Administrative menu, the table that displays the individuals set up with access doesn't show what role(s) they are assigned. To understand what roles are assigned to a specific users/admin, you must select the individual and scroll to t...
about 20 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

DVM: Limit number of active user JDBC connections, and queue excessive connections

Problem: We are having an issue when a user is issuing multiple SQL queries in batch at the same time to DVM server, using jdbc connection, which is resulting in storage shortage errors, and failure of the query. Workaround: IBM support has provid...
about 22 hours ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS Submitted

Improve Langfuse native integration

To add more fields inside the metadata that's exposed in the traces/observations to langfuse, specially the agent name. This will allow us to filter and do auto-testing using LLM as judge that's in langfuse for each agent.
about 23 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted