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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Locking and Unlocking Elements in PAW

I have recently run into an instance at a client where they had inadvertently and accidently locked a specific element of a dimension causing access to be blocked for this element (a version dimension) for all users across the server - in this cas...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Replacement for DB Link to allow sensible database access from OPL

DB Link functionality was removed from version 12.7 and this prevents the sensible accessing of databases from OPL by removing the availability of DBConnection, DBRead, DBUpdate and DBExecute. Whilst there were various issues and bugs with the dat...
almost 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Delivered

How to restrict some user 's permission to create custom SQL in report studio but still let the user run existing reports containing custom SQL

We are about to upgrade cognos from 10.2.1 to Cognos Analytics 11.1.3, and plan to give most user capability to access report studio, but we don't want to provide all of them permission to write custom SQL inside report studio, also we want most u...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Avoid new workload during Db2 Restart Light

In a data sharing environment a Db2 Restart Light was needed after an LPAR outage to remove retained locks and resolve indoubt units of recovery.The failing member was automatically restarted in light mode on one of the surviving LPARs, and showin...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Applying Security - Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Remove OpenSSL in Symphony client 7.3

Hi, Yudong, Unfortunately the security team informed us the DLL you provided ( 1.1.1w ) does not pass security scan, the result indicate the same vulnerability as previous version. Looks like we'll have to go for the option we discussed earlier: r...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Delivered

Allow for Multiple Group and Role Assignments in a Single API Call

Our implementation of OpenPages requires users to be listed in several groups and to have multiple direct role assignments allocated. We use an IAM system which via the REST API adds and removes users and their access. With one user request we nee...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 9 Delivered

Support Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 API with Azure AD OpenID Connect (TS003289567)

Azure AD OpenID Connect API v1 (Azure AD for developers 1.0) doesn't support returning the groups claim in the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) logon method that Cognos uses to Authorize Stored Credentials for scheduled tasks and jobs. S...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered