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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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DB2 Load failure - unable to drain - issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common correlation ...
13 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

A feature/Functionality to export the List of Columns & filters for all Cognos reports

Generate the Report Specification Help to reduce the report redundancy/report Harmonization Business users- Easy for Users to understand via this mapping sheet
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

An Admin Tool option where you can auto-generate CREATE TABLE SQL Statements based on IMS DBD Source code input

This would significantly simplify IMS to Db2 conversions at a time when IMS talent is becoming more difficult to find. The idea would require an "IMS DBD to Db2 Table Converter" option in the db2 admin tool, where you can paste IMS DBD source code...
13 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Under review

read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add "Show Chore" Option in IBM Planning Analytics for excel Interface

In the IBM Planning Analytics Excel on the interface pane (as per the attached screenshot for reference), users can choose from options such as: Show control objects Show AI jobs Show processes Show dimensions However, there is currently no option...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Row command I should show LASTUSED info for plans

From Db2 FL V13R1M507 the column LASTUSED is populated for plans. This information should be show when you use row command in the catalog navigation for plans
13 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Planned for future release

Option to manually stop/ deactivate scheduled jobs in CCR

Currently in our production environment there is a database optimized scheduled job in CCR setup by user which has been resigned from the team and the job is still scheduled to run despite the user is removed. This would pose audit issues and lice...
13 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted