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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.

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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...
1 day 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...
1 day ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 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 ...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 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.
1 day 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...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for IBM IDAA (DB2)

IBM should provide a standards-based Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOM) for its products as a standard product deliverable, preferably based on the CycloneDX CBOM specification. Customers increasingly require transparency into the cryptographi...
4 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 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...
about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

UNIVERSAL FOREIGN-INFLUENCE DISCLOSURE TRANSPARENCY SYSTEM

UNIVERSAL FOREIGN-INFLUENCE DISCLOSURE TRANSPARENCY SYSTEM: research concept for public disclosure registries covering foreign funding and partnerships in civic and academic institutions — transparency scoring, open-source funding-flow mapping. Re...
about 4 hours ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

UNIVERSAL COUNTER-SUPPRESSION DETECTION & PROTECTION SYSTEM

UNIVERSAL COUNTER-SUPPRESSION DETECTION & PROTECTION SYSTEM: research concept for detecting suppression patterns against people and institutions — public early-warning indicator taxonomies, suppression-pattern dashboards, defensive response pl...
about 4 hours ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

UNIVERSAL META SPACE BIO-ATOMIC GRID & BIO-CLOUD DENSITY SYSTEM

UNIVERSAL META SPACE BIO-ATOMIC GRID & BIO-CLOUD DENSITY SYSTEM: atomic antigravity mapping & grid line, atomic-grid engineering, meta bio-vortex, bio-cloud density measurement, atomic mesh layering, bio-optimizing labs & hubs, vortex-...
about 4 hours ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted