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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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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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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,


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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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A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Adjust order of objects starting with numbers

Is it possible to change the order of objects starting with numbers. Currently objects are being displayed in an ordering that works great if 0 to 9 is used. The moment 10 is used, the object display below 1 and not below 9 (which would be the log...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

PAW: dimension synchronization in same book

Currently, it is possible to set dimension synchronization for the entire book, or turn it off. I would be nice to set synchronization same dimension only for specific objects / lists in book. For example: dim Country is synchronized in the list 1...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Flexible Data Replication Across IBM Cloud Pak for Data Clusters for watsonx.data as target

Background: As of now, IBM Data replication has no restrictions to be deployed on specific cluster to replicate data from various sources to targets available, however for users who wants to replicate data using watsonx.data presto connector, the ...
9 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cyclops in the same timezone as system

We are operating on CET/CEST timezones and noticed that in query history we have times that should not exist from the period between 2025-03-30 02:00:00 and 2025-03-30 03:00:00. At 2:00 AM the clocks were pushed 1 hour forward to 3:00 AM so there ...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Request to develop "Apply for Spanner" with GCP Spanner as CDC target

Our cloud applications use GCP Spanner as DB that support Strong-ACID compliance writes with TrueTime ordering. Hence requesting IBM to develop "Apply for Spanner" which can build on "Apply for BigQuery" already developed by IBM. It will also be g...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted