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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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IBM Change Data Capture High-Availability

ABN AMRO, one of the biggest IBM clients in the Netherlands, is facing a problem with CDC Software. The discussion revolves around improving the availability of the CDC agent in a Linux-distributed environment, replicating data from a mainframe to...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Drive Explorer: use Shift button to select multiple files

In the Rich Tier remote access to the S drive we were able to use native Windows Explorer functionality to select one file, hold down the Shift key, and select multiple other files. In Drive Explorer this is only allowing the options of All Files ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Enhance uploading files within Task Focused UI

Uploading files within in the Task Focused UI has currently some limitations:- not possible to add other fields (e.g. enumerated fields) within upload screen- the version history is not available within the Task Focused UI- Download button within ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhance EXPLAIN in order to no longer need Informix server access

Currently Informix EXPLAIN generates a server side file. For developers that are working from remote machines, it becomes problematic to retrieve the explain files when they have restricted access to the Informix Server machine. There are 2 undocu...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

search for module/package when adding metadata to report

add search capability to 'add file' dialog. Let me search for metadata (module/package) rather than manually looking through folders
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration