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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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Provide a property/flag to access the DB2 catalog directly or the current graph database

Since the graph database database needs to be refreshed at regular intervals, therefore will always be out of sync with the real world and create there a window to allow for incorout situation where DAF is not aware of new DB2 objects created via ...
1 minute ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Submitted

API Keys with restricted access permissions

We want to enable users to enact only certain functionalities, such as triggering a job run. Currently, the way we do that is to give them access to a username and zenApiKey as credentials to run the job through the api. However, tech-savvy users ...
less than a minute ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12 ANZ Bank is undertaking a strategic, enterprise-wide platform transformation in which all Oracle databases across the organisation are being migrated from So...
1 minute ago in Master Data Management Submitted

A identity in the DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE that uniquely identifies a SQL statement

The hash columns, STMT_HASHID2 and QUERY_HASH, in DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE the STMT include prepare attributes, bind parms, package and so on, with the actual SQL statement. We would like to have a identity that is only based on the actual SQL s...
less than a minute ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Toggle to continue showing feedback in chat after user submits it

There is no toggle to allow additional feedback that a user has provided to continue showing in chat after the user submits it. Therefore, there's no way for a user to scroll back up in the chat to see the feedback that they had provided. This wou...
about 4 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

More dynamic list criteria

In the simplest form, we are wanting to have one “hotlist” that is able to contain variables so we are able to only add/remove entries from that instead of managing multiple(possibly exponentially many depending on functionality) lists. An Example...
about 13 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Suppress RACF violations normally written to DB2 DIST JES message log.

Lately we had a technical user issuing the same SQL statement over and over again without having the proper access to a table referenced in the SQL statement. The DB2 subsystem is under RACF security control, so an access violation generates a RAC...
about 17 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Enable secure support for custom Hugging Face models requiring trust_remote_code=True in watsonx.ai BYOM workflows

I am working on deploying a state-of-the-art vision-language model (VLM) via Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in watsonx.ai Runtime (WML), specifically using the vLLM-based inference runtime. The model delivers significantly improved accuracy for OCR a...
4 days ago in Watson Machine Learning / Product functionality Submitted

Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted