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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


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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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SSIS scan of event handlers that do not contribute to lineage should be logged as warnings, not errors.

While scanning SSIS dtsx packages using IBM Manta Data Lineage, we observed errors when SSIS System namespace variables are referenced inside event handlers specifically OnPostExecute. SSIS deployment in our organization does not use the MSSQL SSI...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Complete Data Lineage within our Data Platform products

Hi Currently we have a few keys and very populars products that doesn't have a complete lineage. Higher Priority IBM Data Replication (we use to have it in IGC) wx.data integration (StreamSets) Confluence Flink IBM ESB (MQ) wx.data since...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Integrated Data Lineage with Design Lineage from wx.data intelligence and Operation Lineage from wx.data integration

See information in this slack. wx.data intelligence can tell them what dashboard are affected if they plan to change these tables/columns (Impact analysis) assuming they uses tools that is supported by our scanner else it will be manual. Impact an...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
5 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Scheduling consolidation jobs in Controller Web

Possibility to plan consolidation jobs with a certain frequency, i.e. consolidate on an hourly basis – also in web. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Custom reports in Controller web

The custom web functionality should provide more flexibility. Also concerning layouting etc. Drilldown-like reports or reports with filter functionality would also be helpful. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Definition of warnings in addition to errors

It would be helpful if warning rules could be defined. E.g. for issues being not plausible or reconciliations which are not relevant for the closing. Possibility to define additional check rules which would then appear in yellow in the reconciliat...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Change date format for easier data entry

It would be much easier and quicker to enter periods in web if the format would be YYYY-MM instead of YYYY:MM. Would save time using the number keyboard. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted