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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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Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Use of J type intercompany with period looping import specs in Controller Web

For Controller Web import specs with looping by period, there is no ability to define the start column for the transaction amount field. If customers use J type intercompany accounts for their actual imports, we would expect them to want to use th...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Customizing the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace login page

Good morning, at Deutsche Bahn, various applications are made available centrally via short links. This allows end users to quickly and intuitively find their applications, for example as follows: https://db.de/office https://db.de/paw The w...
about 19 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support Cloud Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

The customer is running Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) on Red Hat OpenShift are increasingly looking for ways to optimize infrastructure and licensing costs. One emerging architectural approach is to deploy OpenShift on top of Red Hat OpenShift Virtual...
18 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

MDX Snippets to be supported

Just like with TI Snippets, developers often times have a repository of MDX snippets that they use when building sets and views. Being able to upload these snippets and use them in a similar fashion to TI snippets would be very useful.
less than a minute ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support Lineage Ingestion for Power BI Paginated Reports Using PBIDATASET Provider

Summary Currently, Power BI Paginated Reports (created in Report Builder) that use Azure-based shared datasets (PBIDATASET provider with pbiazure://api.powerbi.com) are successfully ingested by Manta, but no upstream lineage is generated. This res...
about 8 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web Functionality to schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web interface. Additionally, there shoudl be a possiblitiy to receive a success or no success notification per mail.
about 8 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Possibility to configure more than one data source and data mart in FAP Web

At them moment (Version 11.2.1) you can have only one Controller source database and the Add New button for datamart is enabled only if there is no Datamart created. You can have only one Controller source Datamart. We need several data sources an...
about 8 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted