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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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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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Decouple REORG (after REORG PENDING) and index rebuild of not enforcing indexes

When a table goes into REORG PENDING state the OFFLINE REORG needed not only runs the reorg but also rebuilds the indexes and the table stays unavailable for the whole time of all operations. Best scenario would be if the table becomes read access...
19 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Automate NooBaa secret creation in ArgoCD deployment workflow for watsonx Orchestrate to eliminate manual post-deployment steps.

When deploying watsonx Orchestrate using ArgoCD workflow, the WxO operator creates an ObjectBucketClaim (wo-milvus-storage-bucket) but never creates three required secrets that wo-tools-runtime-manager pod needs: - noobaa-account-watsonx-orchestra...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Database Cross Load for tables with XML-Columns (restriction SQL1407N)

Since XML columns were implemented in DB2 years ago, many customers want to transfer data from one database to another (e.g., when moving from an on-premises environment to the cloud). All data can be load via cross-load like this CALL ADMIN_CMD('...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Enable namespace‑scoped image pull secrets for IBM Licensing

Our organization must avoid using cluster‑wide (global) image pull secrets and instead rely exclusively on namespace‑scoped image pull secrets, in line with our internal security policies. While most Cloud Pak for Data components now support this ...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enable MAXTRANSSIZE parm for Classic CDC for VSAM

When batch jobs perform a large number of updates to VSAM, it create 1 UOR that contains too many changes which made the capture cache may full. However, cache memory are shared by subscriptions. We cannot stop other subscriptions to free cache. F...
20 days ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture Future consideration

Setting Display Conditions by “Section” in Questionnaire Assessment

[Features Requiring Further Consideration]In Questionnaire Template, a feature to control the display of items by ‘section’ based on the values of the parent object (Use Case)We envision control similar to the “Specific Control Example” described ...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Future consideration

The “Copy Object” feature in Workflow Operations

[Features to be considered for future implementation]The “Copy Objects” feature available under Workflow > Action Properties > Operations > OperationDetailed functional requirements: Ability to specify copy conditions (When) and multiple ...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation Future consideration

REPLACE VIEW statement should also consider schema level CREATEIN and DROPIN privileges when object owner is different than current user

Currently we get the following error when a user executes a CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW statement on an existing view when the user who executes the statement is different than the owner of the existing view although the user has CREATEIN and DROPIN pr...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse Submitted

Voicegateway tenant config support for vaults

In a multi-tenant setup, currently voicegateway tenant config file is a normal file in which cpd service bearer tokens and credentials for speech-adapters are visible and this file is base-64 encoded in a secret within Openshift. This does not pro...
20 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review