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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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Improved file filtering in drive explorer

Currently it is difficult to filter files in drive explorer. E.g. if I want to filter .dim files I need to put in the search box ".dim" what works but if I change the folder by clicking the parent directory then because of the way filtering is imp...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Automated resource management for CP4D via API and YAML (or equivalent) – for users, groups, projects entities

As the user numbers on the on prem CP4D and wx.ai clusters are scaling the client wants to be able to limit resources for the developers in an automated way via APIs defined by YAML or similar. Limiting resources is available as of today in a supp...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide an ability to modify the System Admin Message that appears when using SSO.

Currently a message is displayed that says "You are not Authorized to access this application. Please contact your administrator,". This is confusing and causes users to contact the help desk. This message is displayed when we put the system in Sy...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Package capabilites to deny use of data mondul, data set and dashboard

To able to deny development on a package is very important for security reason. Very often it is complex to build all security into the package, and then we need to put the security into the reports. Doing so we need to security the package so no ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Delivered

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Image local folder

When designig a PAW Book, we can insert object types "Image": to show it, we have to put an URL which addresses the Image. To do this, we need to setup a new Web Server or use an existing one (if we have...) and place all you images onto this web ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

For manta-alation integration- switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API

About the New Alation API Regarding the suggestion to switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API: This is indeed a different API, and switching to it would require a product-level enhancement on the Manta side. Our Engineering and Prod...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

REORG Utility

The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review