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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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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lsrun should support an access control list for authorized users

In our cluster, LSF users sometimes run an 'lsrun' and run jobs on the LSF Master!!!! This should never happen, it makes the stability of the LSF master at the mercy of random user jobs. We cannot turn this functionality off for all users, so an a...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Functionality already exists

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history without needing to open the data rule and not even having read access to project. Already at the moment one can view on governance rule side definition and binding of the Data quality r...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Improve modifying email notification settings and applying email certificates

The interface to apply email settings in IBM Software Hub isn't user friendly. We are now required to update our email certificates every 45 days. The current interface has us enter the new email certificate but we are unable to save our changes u...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Quick Messages

I need quick messages to appear in the chat in the same language I wrote them. Additionally, there could be an option to prevent any quick messages from appearing.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Needs more information

Datastage ability to mount nfs and run software as a user

Allow better integration to ldap users in Datastage in order to run software and mount nfs share as a user. Today nfs mounts show as user 999 (unknown user) and this is not acceptable from a security point of view. Also the customer uses encryptio...
about 1 month ago in DataStage Under review

Data Source Filters Not Applied During Schema and Table Listing in Data Virtualization Explore

When applying a filter at the data source level in Data Virtualization, this filter is not respected when browsing schemas and tables through the Explore interface while virtualizing objects. Specifically, even after configuring filters on the dat...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization Submitted

Conditional color formatting in Cognos Dashboard

Defining specific color schemes within Dashboards for different audiences e.g. health centers like UCD, UCSF, UCSD and UCSD.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Edit Set Availability on Nested Rows Disappears on Universal Reports

Currently on a Universal report, when Nested Rows contain a "complex" MDX expression (like DrillDownDember) the ability to Edit Set disappears. This is a known issue, but IBM does not accept it is a defect as it is a known behavior.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enhance DV to paralellize reading data when doing a large read to an API application

Using api can be subject to slow SaaS applications, throttled SaaS applications and where getting the data using DV can take a long time. We are also experimenting using caching and that has provided good results. But this DV Request is to paralle...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization Submitted