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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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Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing

Need workflow capabilities for MDE reviewing: column level reviews assigned, when all columns for a given asset are reviewed then a workflow notification for asset review, when all assets for a given MDE are reviewed then a workflow notification f...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need audit logging event for MDE reviews

Customer must audit and because admins have elevated priviledges could bypass the process, the customer must monitor that the reviewer is now the submitter.
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Distribute Db2 Connect “unlimited” license artefacts in a huge environment via z/OS or Db2 for z/OS tooling instead of db2connectactivate.sh

The documented way to “install” a Db2 Connect unlimited license in a Db2 for z/OS system or data sharing group is db2connectactivate.sh. To activate Db2 Connect unlimited for a huge number of Db2 for z/OS systems, a central LUW (or USS) instance w...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

We would like to see OTEL 1161 information added to IFCID 3 with new OTEL section added

Add new OTEL section to IFCID 3 containing SPANID / TRACEID, LUWID, and all related OTEL information
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable WCA4Z to install and operate without GPU requirements for non-LLM use cases and troubleshooting scenarios.

WCA4Z currently has a hard dependency on GPU availability. The Watsonxaiifm component fails to install when GPUs are not present, which subsequently prevents a complete installation of WCABase and WCA4Z. GPU resources represent a substantial infra...

APCompare(warning) info when there is a autorebind

After a production issue due changing Db2 object sql path was changed, we implementing in our shop to use always APCompare(warning) . This works ok for 99% of our changes but some changes in prod that afterwards gets autorebind of packages can sti...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow display type to be set for system fields:description field to Text.

The systemfields:description field is used as Title at Brewin. This is a common use of this field, as this is hardwired to appear on the My Favourites panel. Usually we want to limit the characters of a title field to around 200 characters which w...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for ALIAS for table or view

To drop an alias for a table or view you need high privileges (SYSADM, SYSCTRL or System DBADM) or ownership of the alias. Aliases that were created before DB2 V9 do not have an owner and some other aliases have the wrong owner. It would help a lo...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
11 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review