Skip to Main Content
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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results

Showing 850

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

install libnsl automatically during LSF installation

In RHEL8, I found the follows error. [root@rhel86 lsf]# lsadmin limstartup lsadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And I found "Known issues" part in LSF guide ment...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Lack of alerts for mgt1 issues

In CPDS 1.x the DNS availability is provided only through a single link mgt1 connection. This means that when the link goes down the system is unable to send out e-mail notifications about it as it is unable to resolve hostname of the mail server....
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IMPALA ODBC/JDBC - LOGON with LDAP user when KERBEROS is Activated

As mentioned on IBM Case Number TS003596483, we need a way to connect IMPALA ODBC/JDBC using LDAP when KERBEROS is activated on Cluster. On ODBC, using AuthenticationMethod=-1 and AuthenticationMethod=0 it shows "socket closed" error. Using Authen...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration