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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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Security in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace

Problem: Currently IBM PAW has a vide security access. Consumers and Analysts have access to both tiles - Application and Plans and Reports and Analysis, therefore they are able to see the list of all plans (Application and Plans tile), books (rep...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control User Guidance with another field

The User Guidance can be controlled using a Task View override in a workflow - that is great. But when the object is outside a workflow i.e. (Start -for manual start workflows, End - which could have multiple states [closed, rejected, cancelled et...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Not under consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Provide an option for Deferred merge method in Snowflake destination

https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/connectors_example_push_based_java/img/e5a0394034661f7.pdf Deferred merge is a pattern whereby you maintain a temporary or hot data table (1) with changed or new records for an interval of time. When that ti...
12 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

User configuration of dashboard in new UI

Users cannot configure their dashboard in the new UI, they instead have to switch to the standard UI to make changes and accept the re-formatting of the dashboard when task / oversight / report information is automatically overlaid on their dashbo...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered