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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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Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Exhaustive DB2 catalog search for all dependencies when command like DROP FUNCTION is generated

When entering a drop command in ADB panels against objects like stored procedure or function etc,ai. FN1, ADB generates only a drop for the specific object at which the command is entered. However, in 99% of scenarios, such generated drop cannot b...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform)

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform) Client would like to be able to trace the activities related to the execution of an asset. With reference to the Watson Stud...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Using the ADDI Dataset flow to enable tracing of correspondence between input and output files of an assembler program

In the case of assembler programs, it is not possible to identify the relationship of the data set flow taking into account the input and output files. I would like to be able to do this.
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas 0 Under review

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add the Linux PAM support in LSF

Dear all, we have several applications unable to work properly when they are executed by launching Vnc jobs. We receive several dbus and dconf error messages which can be traced back to the fact that the directory /run/user/$uid isn’t found. This ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Not under consideration

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Pushing CDC Logs to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk automatically

In current modern world, It would be good if CDC product is capable to push the logs (Capture, Apply, Trace) automatically to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk which will help to setup alerts, dashboards, etc., to closely monitor the CDC per...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Future consideration