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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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Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Please enable ASLR

My company, a financial firm, uses Center for Internet Security (CIS) baselines as a configuration standard for OS and database platforms. CIS baselines for RHEL indicate that a feature named Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) should be ena...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
10 days ago in DataStage Submitted

PAW: Dropdown Navigation

Implementing a Dropdown Navigation or expand function would be very useful and space-efficient on the front end. Ie a dropdown displaying a view of action buttons would allow for more user capabilities on the PAW front end.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add a possibility to set the sender E-Mail for Sharing or Plan Notifications to be not the user who is making the action but a fixed mailbox

Currently PAW uses a method to set the sender of Share Mails or Notification Mails to the Person who was pressing the Button or Shares. This leads to that a configured Mailbox send in the Name of a User. That is per Definition actually Spoofing. A...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

IBM Storage Archive - add a data_full threshold parameter

At Library Archive Canada, we are producing 2 copies of LTO9 for our content. Using Scale and LTFS EE as a replication storage. We ideally need to eject copy2 out of a IBM TS4500 library to make them offline, air gaped and send them to a different...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Needs more information

PAW must natively include websheets published via PAfE - just as TM1 Web does.

Idea: Tm1Web-like websheet access has to be available in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role. TM1 Web enables users to access websheets (which have been published via Planning Analytics for Excel) in a hierarchical fo...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Correct welcome message in Controller Web. User name in stead of userID

This is more user friendly, looks more integrated and is then aligned with Cognos Analytics which displays the Name, in stead of the userID Please find in the attachment section a screen shot (CA_vs_CW.png) of Cognos Analytics Web and Controller W...
11 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Sync Scroll in PAW

On cube views that are synced to same group, an option for 'sync scroll' would enable users to scroll on a cube view and another view would also scroll in sync at the same time.
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Use of SSSD to configure authentication and authorization

To configure authentication and authorization and to anticipate the obsolescence of configuration tools, we would like that Safer Payments leans on SSSD which is the official tool of RHEL (Safer Payments leaning on openldap at the present time).
11 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Future consideration