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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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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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Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

Native built-in string similarity and edit-distance functions for Db2 LUW (Teradata TD_StringSimilarity / EDITDISTANCE equivalents)

Db2 LUW has no built-in way to measure how similar two strings are. The only related functions are SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE. These are phonetic, English-centric and ASCII-only. Customers who need fuzzy matching, such as deduplication, customer or en...
about 6 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Align automatic startup limit with the supported number of Db2 Audit Policies

With Db2 13 FL506, the number of audit policies that can be defined has increased to 64. However, the number of audit policies that can be automatically started using DB2START='Y' remains limited to 8. This creates an unnecessary operational restr...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improve DSNU571I message to identify FlashCopy backup cleanup

Update Db2 for z/OS message DSNU571I so it identifies when FlashCopy SYSCOPY records are deleted. The current wording refers only to LOCALSITE or RECOVERYSITE, which can incorrectly suggest that a RECOVERYSITE backup was removed when the records a...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Request to Improve Controller Excel Add-in Resilience Against Third-Party Excel Add-ins

Dear IBM Development Team, We would like to submit a Request for Enhancement regarding the sensitivity of the IBM Controller Excel Add-in to other Excel add-ins installed in the same environment. During recent investigations, we discovered that th...
2 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Enable Real Time Statistics to be written while REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE is running

When a REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility is running, RTS collection for the affected object can be interrupted until the utility completes. For large tablespaces and indexes, online REORGs may run for many hours or even days, resulting in si...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Publish Individual IBM Db2 Pacemaker RPMs for Automated consumption

IBM could provide individual, supported Db2 Pacemaker RPM packages enabling customers to automatically retrieve and integrate them into their internal RPM repositories. This would allow customers to incorporate Db2 Pacemaker updates seamlessly int...
about 3 hours ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Enable Branding Customization for Data Fabric

Currently, branding customization is not available within IBM Data Fabric Catalog. Introducing the ability to customize elements such as company logos, color themes, banners, and landing page branding would help organizations align the platform wi...
about 5 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

The platform should provide a mechanism to restrict API key generation based on user roles, ensuring that only authorized users can create API keys with extended lifetimes.

Currently, any active user on the platform can generate an API key either through the UI or via API requests. Because these API keys do not expire and can be created by any active user, they present a potential security risk. The platform should p...
about 19 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Dynamically load tools for External Agents in the Catalog for agent discovery

Enable builders and users browsing the Catalog to dynamically load and inspect the tools, capabilities, and schemas available within an External Agent (such as Partner BI running on their dedicated Orchestrate instance) before electing to purchase...
about 21 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release