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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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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Execute Code on WxO Chat environment

Many other chat environment already supporting executing code, at least html, react, etc, but WxO isn't supporting which makes the tools very pre-mature. Please make this available so that it can support executing code on the chat window.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Lower refresh interval of monitoring pages

I'm working with CP4D v5.2.1. When I open the software hub montioring page, refresh is limited to 10mins. We need an auto refresh to track progress more efficiently.The 10min window is far too long for monitoring pod restarts, etc.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Hierarchy indentation in Picklists

Currently, TM1 picklists are only showing a flat list of elements. Users are constantly asking for a way to show the right hierarchy indentation they are used to see in a normal subset. There are cases when they want to expand/collapse members in ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Support Kerberos credentials in Data Refinery

Currently as per the most recent versions of Cloud Pak for Data we can't use our connection to Apache Hive on Cloudera 7 because of the fact that we strictly use Kerberos authentication there. We can't use simple passwords. This makes it so that c...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

DVM JDBC Gateway official documentation missing

The official DVM documentation does not provide the necessary steps to configure the DataSource connection configuration on JDBC Gateway using SSL and Kerberos on z/OS LPAR. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/dvm/1.1.0?topic=ssl-enabling-support https://...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add function for changing Ascending/Descending next to "Search" fileld in "Filter Condition" window

In the "Search" field of "Filter Condition" window in Report,Items are always displayed in ascending order. We often choose a recent date, but it's very annoying to have to scroll to the bottom. This function of changing Ascendin/Descending was in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 Database Server/Container for arm64 linux

Currently the db2 database provided by the community edition only supports the following operating systems/architectures:* Microsoft Windows (x64)* Linux (x64)* Linux (IBM Z)* Linux (Power PC)* IBM AIX This means that running the database on any a...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 2 Under review