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.

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    "smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

    We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
    17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

    Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
    11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

    We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
    2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

    Support .TXT files for text extraction

    In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
    3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    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

    Support Cursor-Based Naming for Result Sets in DB2 REST Services

    When a Db2 stored procedure returns multiple result sets through the REST interface, the invoke/execution JSON response content contains a part with sequentially numbered result sets ("resultSet1", "resultSet2", etc.) in the order the cursors were...
    25 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

    The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

    OpenLineage Export to Alation

    Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
    27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Under review

    Expose Field Analysis through REST API

    The newly introduced field analysis is a very helpful feature - in order to use this in external tools, we would want to have the JSON data that the field analysis returns to the UI exposed vie the REST API.
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 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

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