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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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API SOAP to connect to SalesForce will be depreciated by SalesForce by sprint 2027

I suggest to work on a new way to connect Cognos Analytics to SalesForce
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Support Bearer Token (and custom HTTP headers) authentication for HTTP outgoing channels

HTTP outgoing channels in IBM Safer Payments (used by case actions, notifications and external queries) currently support only two authentication methods: Basic Authentication and TLS client certificate authentication. There is no way to add a cus...
about 3 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Generate UNDO and REDO SQL in the same Log Analysis job.

Today a Db2 Log Analysis Tool job can produce either UNDO SQL or REDO SQL, never both. Requesting both fails with message ALAA085 (undo and redo cannot be requested at the same time). To get both, the user has to submit the job twice. That means r...
1 day ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Oracle 26ai compatibility for Content Store

Oracle 26ai is not yet supported by Cognos Analytics for Cotent Store and Data Source. 26ai is more or less a rebranding of 23ai.
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

LOAD privilege on schema level should also include RUNSTATS

Hi Team, to execute a RUNSTATS statement on a table or a statistical view the user should have according the IBM documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=commands-runstats) one of the following privileges : SYSADM, SYSCTRL, SYSM...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Enable Content-Based Identification of COBOL, Copybook, and JCL Files in Manta Lineage

Currently, the Manta COBOL scanner relies on predefined file extensions, such as .cpy and .txt, to identify and process Copybook files. In addition, users have to manually separate and organize COBOL programs, Copybooks, and JCL files before provi...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

IBM Case TS022497473: Connection auditing for all connects/disconnects with AUDIT CONTEXT event-level filtering

Db2 Audit: Event-level filtering for AUDIT CONTEXT to support efficient connection/disconnection tracking (Case TS022497473) Description / Business Justification: Problem Statement: Db2 natively provides connection times but lacks native tracking...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Extend “View related cubes” to identify indirect dimension references

Dear team,  Product: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Component: Modeling Workbench – View related cubes Problem / Motivation############# The existing “View related cubes” function identifies cubes that directly contain a selected dimension....
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Add functionality - COPY definition to, to final rulesets as it exists in Model Components.

Mirroring the functionality to copy rulesets (and their underlying rules) from Model Components to Final Rulesets would be a huge timesaver. This would enable users to quickly copy rulesets and the rules associated with them as opposed to having t...
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted