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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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:


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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.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Show clear error message when entering invalid dates in investment register

While using the new function of locking investment register for the past: if user enters an invalid date from the past, it will just disappear. There is no message or anything being shown. That is not user friendly, because there could be all sort...
27 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

IC reconciliation with the possibility to show differences in transaction currency only

In Controller Web IC reconciliation should include a filter to show differences in transaction currency only. This should be available on company and group level. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH. Corresponding ideas ...
27 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Add GUI-based enforcement of minimum client version for Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Dear team, In earlier TM1 versions, administrators could block outdated client versions by setting the ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg. This parameter has since been deprecated and is no longer supported or available in current releases...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable "disk alerts" for Planning Analytics as a Service - like in other PA solutions

We have customers running PAaaS, and have experienced issues with their databases crashing/stopping due to lack of disk space. In PAW - for some reason there is no way to determine why the databases crashes - and further more they can't be started...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support Informix for Ubuntu 24.04

Useful for using Informix in Ubuntu 24 and higher.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Thread alerts - Planning Analytics as a Service - Administration

Hello, Right now in Planning Analytics as a Service, when configuring alerts in the "Alerts" tab of Administration / Databases from Planning Analytics Workspace, we have the following alerts : Ressources consumption alerts Database status alerts H...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Under review

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