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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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Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 8 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/link...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

CyberArk Integration

Support Cognos Administration teams in the integration of Cognos applications into CyberArk so that Cognos application passwords are managed within CyberArk.Remediate Cognos applications so that application passwords are retrieved from CyberArk. E...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Access applications in task pane instead of PAx ribbon

In Perspectives, applications are accessed through Server Explorer yet in PAx applications are accessed through the ribbon. Not only does this move impact the expected user experience for Perspective converters, but also creates many more clicks t...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need to take a backup for database more than 50 GB size

Hi Team, We have a database that is more than 50 GB when we take a backup daily, but when we restore the backup, all the feeder files are deleted, and the feeder files start loading. Loading all the feeders takes a long time, more than 10 hours, w...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Support integration with a secret management solution like HashiCorp Vault

Allow to save secrets (password, private key, certificat) per user allowing access to external services (WebAPi, files, etc.) other than just databases.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Exporting TASK UI using Object Manager

We are deploying TASK UI using the object manager however there is a limitations on the color scheme and labels(section labels) that they are not included when we run it using object manager. We didn't try the import configurations as when we di...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release