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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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Back Navigation with Data Persistence on Multi‑Step Flow Form

The system shall provide a Back button on Flow Form 2 that allows users to navigate back to the previous form (Form 1). When the user clicks the Back button on Form 2, the application shall return the user to Form 1. All data previously entered on...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Support for Restricting Specific Command Options with values

Currently, the commands.json configuration supports restricting command options only when they are specified without associated values. It does not support restricting options that include values (e.g., -u all in bjobs). This limitation prevents s...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Submitted

Support for User Groups in user Field of esecurity.json

Currently, the user field in the esecurity.json configuration only supports individual usernames and does not allow specifying user groups. This limitation makes it difficult to manage access control efficiently in environments with a large number...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Submitted

Rate Limiting Mechanism for LWS

Currently, LWS (LSF Web Services) does not provide a built-in rate limiting mechanism similar to lsfproxyd. In high-load scenarios, where a large number of concurrent requests are sent to LWS, this can lead to performance degradation or service in...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Submitted

When using forms in Flow, allow users to control whether form input data is inserted into the context

We have confirmed that, as of a certain version, form fields that are used within workflows have come to be included in the LLM’s context. We understand that making input information within a flow understandable to the LLM can be useful in certain...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Reorg index should update Real Time Statistics table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

In case opened to IBM support, I found out that RTS table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS is not updated after reorg index. We have automated reorg of tablespaces and indexes through IBM DB2 Automation Tool using conditions for reorganization from RTS tables S...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Have an new TEMP_TABLE_SIZE = [LARGE|SMALL] onconfig and session parameter

It appears that LARGE temp tables are not best practice, as these are slower than SMALL temp tables. It would be nice to avoid application code changes because of this Informix behavior, and force programmers to use CREATE SMALL TEMP TABLE ... All...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
9 months ago in Connectivity Under review

Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
6 months ago in watsonx.data

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Not under consideration