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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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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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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

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

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...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Planned for future release

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

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

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should support Db2 LUW databases that use a centralized KMIP keystore

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. Recently we converted our Db2 LUW database to use a centralized KMIP keysto...
5 months ago in Db2 Planned for future release

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...

Execution Order of Before SQL and SELECT with Runtime Column Propagation Enabled in Redshift connector.

When Runtime Column Propagation (RCP) is enabled in Redshift connector, DataStage executes the SELECT statement during the stage check phase to infer metadata. If the SELECT depends on a table or view created dynamically in Before SQL, the job fai...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

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...
12 days ago in Connectivity Submitted