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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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SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mutli-cube table

(Please refer to the file for detailed screenshots) In the following example, we want to create a book in which end-user can define a mapping for an allocation. We wish here to allocate Shared Adv & Marketing Expenses (from Europe Mkt services...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Refresh the formulas have to refresh twice to see the update

When adding DBRWs into a exploration view whether above the exploration area or as user inserted columns, when you click refresh, it would refresh the exploration data, but the DBRW's would show 'RECALC', and you'd have to hit refresh a second tim...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Exploration filters sync together

Tie exploration filters together (sync) so that a user can not filter themselves out of data. If filters are all from the same dimension, be able to sync the filters to not show invalid options based on what has already been selected.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support to Jethro datasource over JDBC

Cognos Platform: Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 on Linux We are planning on using Jethro(https://jethro.io/) as an acceleration layer on top of our data lake built on Hadoop with Cognos Analytics as the front end. Jethro offers connectivity to ext...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Add Spaces on Cubeview grid

(See attached document to view detailed screenshots) Your Idea Short Name Add Spaces on Cubeview grid Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW have wonderful self-service capabilities. However, when ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

The ability to use OCP console for cloud pak for data project administration

I have use of OCP console in my dev and sit deployments running in Azure for dashboard monitoring and would like the use of this capability on CPDS
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration