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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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 ...
24 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Not under consideration

Auto-Term of utilities that left an object in RW,UTUT status

Hello, A few weeks ago we had an incident caused by a LOAD utility that could not start correctly and failed at a stage that left the tablespace in RW,UTUT status. This caused the transactions that accessed that table to return error code -904 due...
25 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Control (e.g. with a ZPARM) automatic log switch if the max. log span is reached

Today Db2 switches the log when the max log data set size is reached. The idea is to also let Db2 switch the log if a time interval has been reached (e.g. every 5 minutes). This is important in the context of cyber resiliency initiatives. To achie...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Increase Width of Search/Replace Input Fields in PAW Rules Editor and Process Editor Find/Replace Dialog (Better Space Utilization)

Hello dear team, Idea Summary / Business Case: In IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Find/Replace dialog (opened via Ctrl+F in Rules Editor or TurboIntegrator Process Editor) uses extremely narrow, fixed-width input fields for "Find" and ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Under review

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Functionality already exists

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

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