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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Read-only for opening balances in data entry

It should be possible to lock opening balances for data entry in web. This idea is related to this idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-217 - please reconsider This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
24 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Expand description field for Import of journals in Controller Web

Import journals in Web allows only 65 characters in description => please extend to number of digits available in Journal Entry (Controller Classic+Web) so that imported descriptions do not get cut-off. This idea was raised out of the IBM Contr...
24 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release

zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
21 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Enable official hourly table‑level read/write usage reports in Astra DB.

Hourly table‑level reporting would provide customers with detailed visibility into database usage patterns, query performance, and cost drivers. This granularity is essential for identifying inefficient queries, optimizing resource utilization, an...
18 days ago in Astra Submitted

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