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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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Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Consistent LLM Responses Through Parameter Control

The watsonsx.Orchestrate product backend leverages Watsonx AI models, which may have predefined default values. As a result, responses can vary for the same query, making it difficult to predict exactly what the LLM will generate within Orchestrat...
29 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

after bind/rebind with VALIDATE(RUN) authorization check of static sql is performed at run time. We need an ability to define, this check against the SQL authorization ID, not package owner

If a plan or package is bound with VALIDATE(RUN), authorization checking is still performed at bind time, but the referenced objects and the privileges required to use these objects need not exist at this time. If any privilege required for a stat...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Please support LockTimeout parameter in IBM data server provider for .NET

It's currently not possible to configure the LockTimeout Parameter in .net applications on client side (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=keywords-locktimeout). This would help us to optimize our environment.
7 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Under review

DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Inheritance of PRIQTY/SECQTY Parameters for LOB and Index Spaces in Newly Activated PBG Partitions

In a Universal Table Space (UTS) defined as Partition-by-Growth (PBG), when a base table includes a LOB column, the initial LOB table space and its associated index can be explicitly defined with specific primary and secondary space allocation par...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Pass parameters and context to a watsonx Assistant collaborator

Ability to pass parameters and context to a watsonx Assistant collaborator and get resulting context and returned values when the assistant action is complete.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review