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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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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...
12 days 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...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

IBM CP4D Users statistics reporting

Currently in CP4D user admin session has very limited user CP4D usage statistics - previous session and just a green color showing user active.
12 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

For IBMi SYSTOOLS.DELETE_OLD_SPOOLED_FILES, add number of spool files deleted when Preview => NO

Current implementation deletes spool files but user does not know how many. Would be helpful to return a result for this execution. Similar might be done for deleting old journal receivers.
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Submitted

Universal Reports Alias

Users would like to bring aliases instead of an element name in rows selectors and columns in a universal report.
12 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support for integrations with Splunk and DataDog

This would be used to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine-generated big data in real time.
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Request for Built-in Read-Only Role in Cognos Analytics

We request the introduction of a built-in read-only role in Cognos Analytics 12.x (similar to the Consumer role in older versions of Cognos) that provides read and execute permissions without allowing edit or delete actions. While this requirement...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Dynamic runtime alteration of LLM configs (temperature, reasoning effort, etc)

Can we have more control over how a supervisor agent assembles its message to its collaborators? We'd like to be able to make this more consistent so there is less variance in the user experience and results can be more easily replicated. I've att...
13 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration