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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.

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Request to Improve Controller Excel Add-in Resilience Against Third-Party Excel Add-ins

Dear IBM Development Team, We would like to submit a Request for Enhancement regarding the sensitivity of the IBM Controller Excel Add-in to other Excel add-ins installed in the same environment. During recent investigations, we discovered that th...
about 1 hour ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

IDAA Loader: Improve Restartability Through Automatic Cleanup of Failed LOAD Jobs

💡 Idea Details IDAA Loader should provide improved restartability for failed LOAD jobs by supporting automatic or integrated cleanup of incomplete LOAD operations. Currently, when an IDAA Loader job fails, the previous LOAD operation may require a...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA Loader: Allow Automatic Space Estimation for IDAA_DUAL Work Datasets

💡 Idea Details IDAA Loader currently requires an explicit SPACE parameter for the allocation of work-related datasets used by IDAA_DUAL , including MAPDDN , ERRDDN , DISCARDDN , and WORKDDN . In our environment, when these datasets are defined wit...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable Real Time Statistics to be written while REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE is running

When a REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility is running, RTS collection for the affected object can be interrupted until the utility completes. For large tablespaces and indexes, online REORGs may run for many hours or even days, resulting in si...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ホームページ改革

音 おんがく声をホームページにのせる 。 
1 day ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

ID Propagation Improvement

Hi, this is about id propagation as described in RedBook SG24-7850-00. I prepared a test by using IBMUSER as the primary connection user and a switched remote user CN=lisa,DC=test,DC=com, who I think was supposed to appear as CURRENT CLIENT_USERID...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add a slider widget to evaluate / assess objects

Slider widget is very easy to use and visual. It accelerates the seeting of evaluations on a risk or control.
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics supports the Microsoft Analysis Services 2025 (M17) data server (ODBO and XMLA)

Hello, After updating the Microsoft Analysis Services source from the old 2016 version to the latest 2025 version (which has been generally available as RTM/GA since November 18, 2025), the Microsoft Analysis Services source and OLAP cubes stopped...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

to be able to modify a LSF job using alternative resources (-R with ||)

Hello, When we try to modify a running using alternative resources, bmod is failing with following error message: Cannot change rusage to a new || (or) expression after the job was dispatched. This is a design limitation as we can see on the bmod ...
4 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Support Entra ID client secret credential (Service Principal) for Azure Blob Storage staging in Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement: The Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector in IBM DataStage SaaS supports a bulk write (Load) mode that requires Azure Blob Storage as a staging layer via COPY INTO. However, the Azure Blob Storage staging option within the ...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 3 Submitted