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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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Default Report Creation Options for New Worksheet and New Workbook in PAfE

Current Behavior Customers using PAfE frequently work with multiple Excel workbooks and worksheets containing TM1 reports. When creating a new report, the default option is to create the report on the currently active worksheet. This creates a ris...
about 19 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DDL Integration for Schema registry like targets. Eg Event Hub, Kafka, Iceberg

DDL Integration on source and target was a mutual interaction between source and target and ddl interchange between both. With current technologies like Kafka and Iceberg (which contain schema registry/catalog solutions) the target eases the way.T...
1 day ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Db2 should have a logo as other database products do e.g. Postgres, MongoDb etc

when writing and presenting information in a data flow OR documentation it will be helpful if there was a logo to represent Db2. Most other database products have logos which are instantly recognisable.
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Support Fabric OneLake as a staging location for the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement / pain point (real-life scenario):We are implementing CP4D's "Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse" connector for a multi-country banking client whose entire data platform is built natively on Microsoft Fabric — a single Fabric works...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Improved messages on SQL errors showing the location of the problem

It is extremely tedious and time consuming to locate an error in an SQL statement - especially when it is a larger statement with multiple CTEs etc. Currently only a couple of characters near the problem are reported back but these could appear in...
6 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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 ...
19 days ago in DataStage 3 Submitted

RUNSTATS ON ALL SYSTEM TABLES / VIEWS

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

REORG ALL SYSTEM TABLES

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Have the /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 be OpenAI compatible - API design incompatibility is blocking third-party integration

The current API for uploading files into Orchestrate: /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/watsonorchestrate--custom-assistants/api/API--watsonorchestrate--agent-execution-and-runtime#upload_to_s3_v1_orchestrate_uplo...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted