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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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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 multiple File System Root Locations in case of failure in Cognos Config > Global Config > Archive Location File System Root

In events of failure to reach File System Root Location for report deliveries, allow multiple File System Root Locations (list in order) to be saved so Cognos can point to another File System Location automatically, if one fails it goes to second ...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Bidirectional SharePoint Connector for DataStage in IBM Cloud Pak for Data

This proposal aims to develop a native bidirectional connector between Microsoft SharePoint and DataStage within IBM Cloud Pak for Data.The connector should allow users to extract and send data (read and write operations) from and to SharePoint li...
16 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enhancement of BiqQuery connector stage - Credential field to be modified to hold JSON data in encrypted format

We are currently running applications hosted on Information Server 11.7.1.4 version. We have a critical requirment to connect Google Cloud through a datastage job. We have considered BiqQuery connector stage as a suitable one for fulfillment. Curr...
9 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Model Repository and Custom Repository Integration

The current state of watsonx.ai in terms of installing models is far away from our expectatins. You told us, that watsonx.ai should be a solution for business users, but if you want to load a model this is very complex, intransparent, time consume...
19 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Enable the storage and retrieval of VIEW-Formats in native (legacy) and MDX-Views in Explorations in PAfE and PAW

In TM1 Server Explorer/Cube Viewer a user, modeler or administrator was capable of saving and retrieving individual view-formats per view, independent of the format assigned in the last dimension of the cube. This format was stored in the ID 375 o...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

ApplicationSecurity entries are lost when existing Websheets are replaced via PAfE

We control user access to applications/folders and individual web sheets in TM1Web via the system cube ApplicationSecurity (dimensions Groups & Applications). This defines which rights each user group has for which web sheets. It often happens...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Simplify Security Logins for Drive Explorer

Currently in Drive Explorer you have to login to the remote file store. Coming soon, you'll also have to log into the local file store. From a security perspective, this makes sense. However, it is tedious for administrators especially when there ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Add a mechanism for live log viewing

I've opened case number TS020451332 and reported that I do not see the Live Log Viewer option from the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service - Development environment. The support team member indicated that in our we have the "Busines...