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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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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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Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Request access to data from within Data Asset

Users need to be able to request access to the data from within the data asset page. All metadata is currently visible but there is no way for a user to request access to the data.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Add custom relationship towards reference data value - now there is only custom relationship towards reference data

I want to create a custom relationship from category to reference data value. At the moment that is not possible. I can create a relationship towards the whole reference data set, but not the individual values. For a term it is possible to create ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Allow updates to HADR Standbys

Allow for updates to be issued on HADR standbys like Informix allows. Here is a extract from the informix manuals: You can enable applications connected to secondary servers to update database data. If you enable write operations on a secondary se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Request to enable the clearance of asymmetric MDX views when data processing.

Asymmetric MDX represent the general case of a data set in PA, an Asymmetric view is typically delivered with and MDX filter. The ViewZeroOut function currently does not support the clearance of MDX views that contain a filter statement. The lack ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for Oracle datatype sdo_geometry in CDC

We are a railway infrastructur provider and building our realtime digital twin. For this we need very often geological position information for trains or railway infrastructure. We use IBM CDC to integrate many of our Oracle systems realtime and w...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

AI Forecasting - Data Commit Notification

Hello team, While using AI forecasting at a consolidated level, the notification says that forecasting is completed, but the forecasted values do not show up immediately. I understand that the spreading process is still running the background. Sin...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration