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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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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.

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Runtime Logging Export for DataStage

We understand that there currently a way to export runtime logs to an external service(ADLSg2) post the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline. However, we are looking for a way to export these logs during the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline.
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

UDF Governance on CPD

We understand that User-Defined Functions(UDF) in DataStage can be created by any user on the platform and attached to any project. We need some way to control who can create a UDF and more importantly limit who can attach UDFs to a project so tha...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Display RTS data for a list of tables/tablespaces

Development DBA performs design/delivery of scripts to modify production environment. Dev DBA does not have access to any tables in production environment other than Db2 catalog. As statistics are not necessarily current in catalog, most reliable ...
1 day ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Submitted

Request to add official support for Azure SQL Database using ActiveDirectoryManagedIdentity authentication as a Content Store database option in IBM Cognos Analytics (12.1.x and future releases).

As per IBM support confirmation: Cognos Analytics 12.1.x does not support Azure SQL Server when using: authentication=ActiveDirectoryManagedIdentity This configuration has not yet been validated or certified by the product development team. Custom...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Improve FAP 'Update structure' to publish Company 'More Information' to PA (TM1)

In Controller classic client, user clicks “Maintain – Company Structure – Define”, then chooses a company and clicks “More Information”. User makes a change, for example changes the value of an entry from "C" to "B". Superuser then: • Presses save...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

More OAuth clients

The implementation of OAuth 2.0 is an excellent development. It would be even more helpful to have options to add more clients than just one.
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

SecurityScoreCard connector enhancement

We request an enhancement to the OpenPages SecurityScorecard integration to support native calls to the SecurityScorecard all-companies REST API, instead of requiring the current portfolio-based retrieval model. IBM documentation currently states ...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Submitted

The idea is to enhance watsonx Orchestrate so it can directly connect to any external agent without requiring strict protocol compliance (like chat‑completions or A2A).

This enhancement is useful because it removes a major integration barrier between watsonx Orchestrate and external agent Most existing external agents expose REST APIs with custom request and response formats, which are not directly compatible wit...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Option to download more than one file at a time in Planning Analytics as a Service File Manager

Currently in Planning Analytics as a Service in the File Manager there is no option to download more than one file at once. This makes a particular process of ours cumbersome as we generate a large number of files to import into our ERP as part of...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

The function CubeRuleAppend() misses a few logical parts

I observe the following 2 situations for the function CubeRuleAppend. - When I want to add a rule to a cube, but there is not yet a rules file, PA will create the rules file. This can be done with the function CubeRuleAppend. However, when I want ...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted