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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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Provide Metadata Import suport for Azure Synapse in CP4D

Problem Statement: watsonx BI doesn't support Azure Synapse, forcing Azuresynapse customers to move their data elsewhere to use wxBI. This creates extrawork and slow performance, making them less likely to adopt our platform. Solution Value Statem...
11 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Please add the ability to track the progress of a Db2 Bridge LOAD operation

At present, the Db2 Bridge client does not offer a method to monitor the progress of a LOAD operation when performing a db2file_db2 data transfer.
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge Under review

Spark jobs are in starting state and pods are all running in openshift UI when there is issue with volume

There should be timeout and jobs should fail. If it is in starting state, all the pods will be active and the jobs will pile up and even cron job couldn't clean that up. TS021767983-spark jobs are in starting state and pods are all running in open...
11 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

DataStage must allow developers to choose a Github branch to commit

Github branch is enabled at project level. This can only be updated by accessing project settings. This raised two concerns. 1. Developers are forced to commit all jobs into the same branch. They do not have an option to choose a different branch ...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration

DB2 HADR with Pacemaker: use systemd to gracefully takeover to standby before server shutdown

Using DB2 HADR with Pacemaker. Before a shutdown/boot of the primary server in a cluster (for planned OS maintenance or otherwise), a takeover of the databases should be executed on the standby server. This avoids a forced takeover. We would like ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Not under consideration

Add Explicit "No Results Found" or "End of Matches" Message in PAW Rules/Process Editor Find Dialog

Dear team, Idea Summary / Business Case: When using Ctrl+F in the Rules Editor or TI Process Editor in PAW, if a search term yields no matches (or after cycling through all matches), no feedback is given. Users see only silent behavior (no highlig...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Implement OAUTH with mTLS

We want to implement an improvement in OAUTH authentication with the introduction of mTLS (multual TLS). New security requirements and implementations in communication with external APIs between different companies with open communication on the i...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Planned for future release

Enhancing Performance and Latency metrics with append when you relog to MC

Useful to cross verify the latency and performance , also to keep an historical data for the benchmark , also sending the data to datadog, splunk, appdynamics or grafana these tools are being used by many clients and it will be useful to send our ...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted