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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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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,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Provide full system symbol support in yaml files and any 'captured' component locations

For some of the yaml file uses, this would aid in deployment and backout where if we could put a system symbol in the 'instance' file names (those created outside SMP/E) so that when we apply a PTF we update the symbol, UMS/ADF (whichever) would t...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

ability to lock a dashboard or view only mode

Within our company, we have many power users with strong analytical skills that are making dashboards for key managers and decision makers. However, these dashboards cannot be locked and many individuals have changed an analysts work without even ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

export data as text from PAW

Hi there, I believe that there has been another idea that suggests having the Export ASCII data as text in PAX and I have voted on that. If PAX is not possible then what about having this functionality of EXPORT data as text from PAW? This is very...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Keep company in security rights after end-date

When selling/likquidating a company, you set an end-date in the company structure. As a result, the company will disapear from all company security groups. No user will be able to select and see historic values for that company until you have manu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

PXRuntime no down time support for Walmart

We need a product enhancement to support no down time during the OpenShift maintenance. OpenShift maintenance typically requires node restart. If DataStage PXRuntime pods were running on those worker nodes, the jobs will fail. If we have a control...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0

Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

Mandatory fields and attachments in plan tasks.

We are using the plans feature in Planning Analytics Workspace to submit KPI results that goes through an approval cycle. We are trying to create a data validation rule that prevents cells to be left empty, so we can be sure that the end users put...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow comments to defined risk lists to be loaded when entries are uploaded with a file

Currently, when a defined risk list is loaded with a file, only the main item of the list can be auto-loaded, comments to this item can be input only manually, which basically means the client will either have to do this for hundreds and thousands...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review