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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Historical Project level resource usage data for CP4DaaS for IT budget planning

Current system shows monthly project statistics but lacks historical data SaaS services have been cut down, requiring active monitoring of group usage Project dashboard displays current month resource usage and shows zero usage for new month until...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
20 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review

Automatically start up ATF Trace during start up OMPE Collector

You have the option to launch the ATF Trace when the OMPE Collector starts. This trace remains active (with the same normal ATF trace filters, such as PLAN and CORRID) and only intercepts and writes to the dataset when a certain threshold has been...

Support temporarily adding additional PVs (storage) for use in temporary tablespaces (reorgs, partial restores, admin move tables, ...)

As an enterprise customer, there are actions to improve data structure or performance by reorgs or admin move tables. Having large indexes and tables with tablespaces >4 TB, there is the need to create temporary tablespaces. However, today this...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Support separation of volumes for DB2 data and transaction protocol (following best practices) and support flexible scaling (up and down) of volume for transaction log

We request that DB2 on cloud stores transaction log in a separate PV so that there is no risk of running out of storage when doing large reorgs increasing secondary log files. As today tx log and data is on the same PV, there could be a problem wi...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
21 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

Offer an opt‑in premium “Robert mode” that uses higher‑capability model combinations at increased Bobcoin cost.

Enterprise customers are willing to pay materially more for higher reasoning depth, reliability, and autonomy for complex, multi‑repo work, and a premium tier gives teams and consultancies access to stronger model mixes while maintaining cost tran...

Provide a native mode to run Bob as an HTTP server exposing RESTful APIs.

An API‑first deployment allows Bob to be embedded into portals, internal tools, and automated systems, benefiting platform teams and partners orchestrating agent workflows at scale; this should include authenticated REST endpoints for job submissi...

Add hooks support to let customers execute custom logic at defined points in Bob’s lifecycle (pre‑run, post‑run, tool invocation, failure events).

Hooks enable enterprise integration for logging, policy enforcement, approvals, and observability, benefiting platform, DevOps, and security teams embedding Bob into existing pipelines; Bob should expose configurable pre‑run, post‑run, tool‑call, ...

Introduce skills.md support so Bob can load persistent, user‑defined skills and behaviors from the repository.

Skills files allow teams to codify repeatable workflows, conventions, and agent behaviors that improve consistency and productivity across large codebases, benefiting enterprise engineering teams and consultancies; Bob should automatically load sk...