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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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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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Planning Analytics 3.1 - Add parameter "domain_hint" to OIDC configuration to allow automatic login

At Deutsche Bahn, we use a standard service called DB WEB SSO for OIDC. Essentially, this is Azure EntraID, although most settings are predefined by the service, leaving us with limited configuration options. In our case, the optional domain_hint ...
about 21 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable support for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a data source for Data Lineage import in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC).

IBM Db2 Warehouse is a critical data platform used by many organizations for analytical workloads, reporting, and business insights. However, it is currently not supported for Data Lineage import in IKC, which creates a significant visibility gap ...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
6 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Enhancement to Quiesce utility: RETRY and DRAIN_WAIT.

If there are applications in a shop that are operating under the goal of 24/7 uptime, including tablespaces that support it, (for example, internet customer usability), a QUIESCE utility can fail to drain writers if there are constant threads conn...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Create a PBR table with specified physical partition order

Sometimes it is required to create a copy of an existing table that will exactly match the existing table. And as physical and logical partitions in PBR can be out of order, that includes the existing order of physical partition numbers. CREATE TA...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

We need to establish a connection to Hive using a specific connection string that includes Kerberos authentication along with an additional option: server2.proxy.user.

An example of connection string: jdbc:hive2://AAA.sede.corp.com:10000/;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=/opt/informatica/kerberos/cm-auto-global_truststore.jks;trustStorePassword=SSSFFRRR;principal=hive/AAA.sede.corp.sanpaoloimi.com@SEDE.CORP.COM;hive.serve...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Multi-tenancy support for Analytics Engine Spark

Client has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark compute usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. As these two s...
2 days ago in Analytics Engine Submitted

Multi-tenancy support for WatsonX.Data Spark Engine

Client has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark compute usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. We are proposi...
2 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Deactivation of ownership based authorization checking

Currently during the authorization check in DB2 there is a mixture of possible rules giving access to operation/resource one of which is the ownership check. In principle, this is a disturbing part of authorization check from the security administ...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted