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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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  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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Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
18 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

More dynamic list criteria

In the simplest form, we are wanting to have one “hotlist” that is able to contain variables so we are able to only add/remove entries from that instead of managing multiple(possibly exponentially many depending on functionality) lists. An Example...
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted

Suppress RACF violations normally written to DB2 DIST JES message log.

Lately we had a technical user issuing the same SQL statement over and over again without having the proper access to a table referenced in the SQL statement. The DB2 subsystem is under RACF security control, so an access violation generates a RAC...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Enable Table/Schema/Database-Level Filtering When Searching Database Columns in Custom Attribute Relationships

Hello, In IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC), we have configured custom attributes with relationships addressing database columns to define primary data source references. However, due to the scale of our organization, the current dropdown ...
7 days ago in Information Server  / Governance Submitted

Change default settings for a few retry parameters to LSF proxyd

job submission contacts LSF proxyd to get token, this communication may fail for whatever reason but LSF proxyd provided following three retry tunings.LSF_PROXYD_TOKEN_WAIT_TIME LSF_PROXYD_NTRIES LSF_PROXYD_NOTOKEN_NTRIES Qualcomm would like to se...
10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Not under consideration

Enable add external databases in DMC bundled in CP4D

DMC console bundled with CP4D is capable monitor only DB2 instances deployed inside CP4D. It will be helpfull enable usersconnect also databases ouside of CP4D. For example in case you have deployed Cognos as part of CP4D but your databases are ex...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console Submitted