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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.

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Add option to disable copy button in chat

Some clients don't want the copy functionality for the embedded chat. Currently, a copy icon appears below each user message, as well as the last agent response. Some clients don't like what text is copied when clicking on copy button under agent ...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

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 ...
6 days 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 ...
6 days 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...
6 days 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...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
26 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted