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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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Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Create report in new workbook (from viewer)

Currently, when you create an excel report from the cube viewer, it opens a sheet in the existing workbook. In our case, we have a Revelwood solution as our landing page and are unable to change sheets - so users are unable to get back to the land...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improving serviceability and messaging for REORG TABLESPACE LASTLOG NO processing

We are using LASTLOG NO option and get the error message "DSNU590I DSNURLOG - RESOURCE NOT AVAILABLE, REASON=X'00C9000A',"The current explanation of the reason code does not match the behaviour which is happening here. After opening a case they ex...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable dropping tablespace partitions without changing to data capture none

With the ability to convert tablespaces from PBR to PBG and back, we are now able to drop partitions in both PBRs and PBGs. However, this requires that we switch off data capture on the table for the duration of the change.As we are using CDC to r...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

SORTDATA NO and AREOR

We need to change all limitkeys of one of our very large TS (several TBs). This implies that afterwards a REORG must run over the complete TS. Currently Db2 utilities do not fully support EAV volumes (our open requirement Support SORTWK with EAV [...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Deprecation/Removal Notice/Warning for Deprecated LLM Models on Watsonx AI via Watsonx SDK call. Support case CS4244931

As users of the Wastonx AI platform, most of the time we use the watsonx python SDK to call the model API. Support case CS4244931 Currently:Now, we can see the deprecation as well as removal details of a particular model from the Watsonx UI in pro...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Global Search Latency Monitoring Dashboard

We need a dashboard to show how quickly changes in the catalog get updated in the global search. This will help us see if the search is working correctly and not falling behind. Right now, we can't see if our search is up-to-date. When we make a c...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review