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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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Include DataStage v11.7.x compatibility with Visual Studio Community Versions (2019, 2022)

Kindly consider including current version of Microsoft Visual Studio Community versions (eg. 2019, 2022) as we are upgrading to DataStage v11.7.1 fp5. Based on the DataStage v11.7.1 fp5 compatibility report: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/co...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
12 months ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update Drill-Through Definitions Parameters Window to be more user friendly

It would be very helpful to update the Drill-Through definitions Parameters window to be more user friendly if it were possibly to do things such as changing every "Method" simultaneously to "Pass Parameter Value" or another option. Many times, es...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Internet Explorer Windows Mode is not working for all functionalities in Report Studio or Query Studio

1) Query Studio or Report Studio• Could not drag and drop the dimensions that I want into the content box. • Reports could not be successfully exported out (be it 2002 or 2007 Ms Excel versions) consistently. Sometime it can be exported, somet...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow Planning Analytics for Excel to work with Chromium browsers

The current version of PAX uses Internet Explorer 11 as its back-end. This browser is no longer being updated or supported by Microsoft soon. Instead, it is being replaced by the chromium-based Edge browser, now standard on most Windows 10 compute...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Certify IIS 11.5 with WinServer 2016

Micorsoft Windows Server 2016 is only supported/certified with the 11.7 version.As of now, there is no support for the version 11.5. Would you, please, certify IIS 11.5 with Microsoft Windows Server 2016! Corresponding Salesforce Case: TS001523521
about 7 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration