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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Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add "Show Chore" Option in IBM Planning Analytics for excel Interface

In the IBM Planning Analytics Excel on the interface pane (as per the attached screenshot for reference), users can choose from options such as: Show control objects Show AI jobs Show processes Show dimensions However, there is currently no option...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Row command I should show LASTUSED info for plans

From Db2 FL V13R1M507 the column LASTUSED is populated for plans. This information should be show when you use row command in the catalog navigation for plans
22 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Planned for future release

Option to manually stop/ deactivate scheduled jobs in CCR

Currently in our production environment there is a database optimized scheduled job in CCR setup by user which has been resigned from the team and the job is still scheduled to run despite the user is removed. This would pose audit issues and lice...
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support Custom Fonts in Cognos Dashboards

IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards currently do not support custom fonts, while this feature is available in reporting. This creates inconsistency across the platform and limits organizations from meeting corporate branding standards. Many enterprise...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Reduce steps in creation of Governance Artifacts

When I create an artifact, I have to do at least 2 clicks to create the same type of assets again. Instead of just having the create option, can we have a create and new option so that we can continue with same artifacts with lesser clicks.
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Limit access to IBM OpenPages to a single session

User sessions must be limited to one session at a time. That is, if a user is logged into one PC and then moves to another and logs in, the system must close the first session and leave only one session active. A PMR TS021491926 was opened, which ...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Deprecated throw funcation should be removed

/Symphony/lx-x86_64/symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2 $ vi include/soam.h ln 351 And this pattern repeats on many lines throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. There are ways to make it compatible while removing deprecated throw function.
23 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version Submitted

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

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