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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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Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add a File Size column to the knowledge documents list

Currently, in Knowledge → Manage knowledge → Documents, the interface lists all uploaded files but does not show their file size, even though the size is already returned by the backend API (file_size field inside each document’s metadata). Displa...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Enable native uploading and processing of .log files to allow users and teams to submit application and system logs directly for analysis, troubleshooting, and insights.

.log files are a primary source of truth for understanding system behavior, failures, and performance issues, yet they are often excluded or require manual workarounds (zipping, renaming, copy-pasting). By supporting direct .log file uploads, user...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Increase Limit for processing LOB values

We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review