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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.

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Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow to choose which reports can be added to the panel on the shared between different lines of business dashboard

So far there are only 2 options to choose which report can be added to the panels on the dashboard: 1. all reports as a tree of all published reports 2. profile reports As soon as the profile can be shared between different lines of business, they...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Ensure that several messages put into MQ via DB2MQ.MQSEND within one Db2 UOW are received in correct order at the other side of the queue

Db2 is called by CICS. CICS is coordinator of the global UOW. Within this UOW there are two calls of DB2MQ.MQSEND to put message 1 and message 2 into a MQ queue in a specific order. MQPOLICY used for this DB2MQ.MQSEND calls is defined with SYNCPOI...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

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...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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...
30 days ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Submitted