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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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Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
about 21 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
about 3 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

End User UI enhancement (Custom charts)

Problem Statement: Currently, we provide clients the flexibility to choose their own risk matrices. However, when using the dashboard chart, the filter options display extra values and expose certain values that users should not have access to. Wi...
about 5 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
13 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
7 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Server Logs - Increase number of lines to display and download - Planning Analytics as a Service

Hello, To reach the server logs in Planning Analytics as a Service, we need to access to the database in Planning Analytics Workspace (in a workbench). We have then a tab opened for server logs where we can either filter the lines to display or do...
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
about 2 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted