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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,

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  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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Enable ORCHESTRATE Support in Redshift Connector

Currently, ORCHESTRATE-based job design logic works correctly with the Teradata connector, but fails with the Redshift connector. This creates a functional gap during Teradata → Redshift migrations and forces redesign of existing, production-stabl...
about 22 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
29 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Under review

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 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...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 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....
9 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 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...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review