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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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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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Set Synchronisation Group by hierarchy

Currently, Visualisations in PAW are attached to 1 synchronisation group This means that if you want to have 2 visualisations which are synched to the same sheet level selectors, except for 1 hierarchy where you want to used separate visualisation...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Reorg index should update Real Time Statistics table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

In case opened to IBM support, I found out that RTS table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS is not updated after reorg index. We have automated reorg of tablespaces and indexes through IBM DB2 Automation Tool using conditions for reorganization from RTS tables S...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Deleting the data Flows after rule execution

This idea is derived from CPDIDEAS-I-2537 specific for deleting the data flows with rule execution (as per IBM request). IBM handling the rules execution flows deletion up to some extend. But still not a full proof solution. #Flows not deleting fo...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Auto-Term of utilities that left an object in RW,UTUT status

Hello, A few weeks ago we had an incident caused by a LOAD utility that could not start correctly and failed at a stage that left the tablespace in RW,UTUT status. This caused the transactions that accessed that table to return error code -904 due...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Move or Rename a referenced Distribution List

Cognos Admin currently supports the moving of Distribution Lists , but when someone does this, any report schedule referencing this DL breaks - we need the ability to use the functionality as intended In the same area, a DL can be renamed, but onc...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Allow Direct Assignment of Filters/Selectors to Specific Tabs in PAW Books (Tab-Specific Synchronization Without Custom Groups)

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books, selectors/filters can be synchronized globally (Book scope) or via custom synchronization groups (assigning widgets to groups for tab-specific sync). However, there i...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Is a defect

CAds 9 After installation, no access to the web portal /peb

We are experiencing a problem with a CADS 9 installation in a customer's production environment. After successful installation and deployment in the database repository, when we open the web portal /peb in the browser, the tool displays the error ...
11 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS Submitted

Support column-level lineage export to Alation for filesystems

This request builds upon https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-40 which added support for expeorting lineage for filesystems to Alation. The above feature could not export column-level lineage because Alation did not have an API to import column-l...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted