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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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No way to test Powershell scripts on the Data tier in the cloud environment

Configuring email to work on the cloud for our customer was very difficult because there was no way for me to test my Powershell script in the cloud environment. Email access to the SMTP server only worked from the data tier (not the server itself...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Job pend time statistic error

Description: By definition, job pend time should be pre-exec time minus submit time, but the job pend time taken by Explorer is run time minus submit time, which contains pre-execution time.According to the explorer support professional, the job p...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

More Flexible PAW Exploration Formatting

I feel that the current formatting options for an exploration in Workspace are limited and do not allow the creation of formatted financial views/statements. The current conditional formatting and the "new" row header format do not provide the fle...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

DSNUTILS/U -Writing SYSPR...

DSNUTILS/U does not allow the contents of SYSIBM.SYSPRINT to be externalized. The information is returned only to the caller. A DBA supporting a bulk load initiated from data stage does not have any visibility into the progress of the load or diag...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration