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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Import specification in web with at least same level of functionality as in classic

Data import: functions / operations, such as in CCR Classic for definition of import specification; Import spec should at least be as powerful as in Classic. At the same time there should be low barrier / self service access to import functionalit...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Webhooks should create an event when a folder location of a record has changed

Webhooks should create an event when a folder location of a record has changed It is very often that a record changes its folder path say for example movement of business structure or re allocation of records to a new business unit. For example, l...
7 minutes ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation Submitted

Support for Oracle SQL Loader Lineage in Manta

Background In our current data pipelines, Oracle SQL Loader plays a critical role in loading data from flat files into Oracle tables. These loads are orchestrated through shell scripts and control files (.ctl), which define the mapping between inp...
about 10 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Mail function to inform all users

Possibility to inform all users in one go, e.g. on timeline changes, closing process or structure changes or any other information that needs to be distributed to this audience. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 15 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
about 15 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Chat / collaboration feature 

A chat / collaboration feature would be helpful, e.g. in the area of IC reconciliation but also in other areas, e.g. to ask for commenting of certain figures. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 15 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Scheduling consolidation jobs in Controller Web

Possibility to plan consolidation jobs with a certain frequency, i.e. consolidate on an hourly basis – also in web. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 15 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
about 15 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Custom reports in Controller web

The custom web functionality should provide more flexibility. Also concerning layouting etc. Drilldown-like reports or reports with filter functionality would also be helpful. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 16 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted