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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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Need APIs for watsonx Assistant custom extension - create and configure

Current option: Currently creating and configuring custom extensions is done from the IBM Cloud watsonx Assistant UI: Step 1- Integrations>Extensions> "Build custom extension" (provide name, description, upload a OpenAPI json file etc.) Step...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Show a status for Replication on the ADM "AT" screen

It should be easy to identify tables that are Disabled for Replication. The user can go to the KEYS screen one table at a time, so see status like this: Status for table . . : TECH.TBASP_ALERT_HISTRY Acceleration status : 1 Load status : Loaded Re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

improve documentation about CONDBAT (& MDBAT) and how to watch the limit being approached

The IBM provided documentation for important ZPARM of CONDBAT and MDBAT is a bit vague on exactly what to watch for these important limits. The documentation could be improved. I reviewed the documentation for DISPLAY DDF command https://www.ibm.c...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Better support for modern occ communication (i.e. case actions) patterns (REST/OAuth)

Topic of this request are the "case actions" (occ communication) from Safer Payments to any external systems to send/receive data from a cases. Mainly it focuses on the lack of abilities for the “HTTP method” message type that lacks any modern fea...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and Identification Collaborative Concept

Proposal: AI-Powered Neurodivergent Employment Support and IdentificationCollaborative Concept Developed by: John C. Payte and IBM Watsonx Powered AI (Version: Watson Assistant 4.7.1, Model: wa-nlp-4.7.1-2022-07-15) Introduction:As a collaborative...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Offset for entity framework

I’m currently using Entity Framework to fetch data from DB2. Due to limitations in how paging works, I’ve had to enable UseRowNumberForPaging in the connection string, otherwise the Skip() functionality doesn’t generate valid SQL for DB2. Without ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Planned for future release

General behaviour of opening the set editor from Pafe Task Pane.

Problem 1 : If you select edit set from a specific subset then you don’t get to that subset, you get to the default (if defined) or the All Roots, not a logical step. Even more confusingly the header for the set editor gives the set name you opene...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration