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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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CCR needs to pull journals (company & GAC) layer by layer by subgroups unlike in PA which can be pulled directly in group level

The way CCR pulls journals is still too rigid, as compared to PA. In CCR Journal reports can only be generated group by group. Unable to select multiple groups. Auditors request for ALL journals to be provided, in this case, the consolidation team...
37 minutes ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

CCR audit log not so user friendly with codes which are not explained

Although under idea https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-281 it says that the enhancement has been delivered, the report continues to be not so user friendly. More details from Customer below: Codes are not user friendly, and unable ...
44 minutes ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Consolidation Type not listed in generated user access Company Group report

Customer has cases where an entity can exist in more than one Consolidation Type. In the Security Groups configuration page, it will be segregated by Consol Type. However, when Company Group reports are generated, the Consol Type info is dropped, ...
about 1 hour ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Eliminate requirement to stop all members in the DSG to delete a member

We run a 24x7 shop. The requirement to delete a member include stopping all members in the group: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/13.0.0?topic=members-destroying-data-sharing This requires an outage and should not. In V13, there are now ne...
about 9 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Db2 Backup - Support for Google Cloud Storage

Db2 supports backup to S3 compatible interfaces. Support for Google Cloud Object Storage is required for some clients. Requesting enhancement to Db2 backup so a choice of cloud object storage can be leveraged. In this case Google Cloud Object Stor...
about 16 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Under review

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support of OpenText as Source in UDI

The customer is interested in adopting UDI but requires OpenText as data source, which is currently unsupported. This limitation prevents integration of critical enterprise content and blocks broader adoption.

Dominik Baer

Operator V2 doesn't support changing volume size for DB2 containers. We have storage scale and changing the PV works, but DB2 doesn't acknowledge the resizing (enlarging) of the volume.This is one of many meaningful infrastructure related config p...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Container Submitted

Group ownership for imported metadata asset in catalog

When I use the "Import metadata from file" function to add a new asset or update an existing asset in an existing catalog, the Owner field is automatically set to my user account instead of an existing group. In enterprise environments, assets are...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Enhance Utility History Tables to record DSNTIAUL unloads

I am missing that the unloads made with DSNTIAUL be recorded at the Utilities History tables. In fact, I came here to vote an idea like this, taking for granted that someone had already opened it asking for this. :-) Sorry if there's already one, ...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review