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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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parent folder has Full Control access, but one of its subfolders has restricted inherited permissions or limited View/Edit access

Within the "Shared/ABC" location, the user has "Full Control" access at the parent folder level. However, one of the subfolders inherits permissions but shows “View & Edit” access only. When the user attempts to grant Full Control access to an...
11 minutes ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Data Overlap in the Lookup Table in IBM Controller, Batch queue > queue>maintain view

The issue happened due to the data overlap in the lookup table in IBM Controller due to which SAP_Stage data in lookup table i.e. Data import specification or in Maintain> Batch queue manage view by using the ADM id which shows the status faile...
about 5 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Login Threshold Alert - Too many logins in one calendar day

An email alert should be triggered when a user logs in 12 times or more within a single calendar day. This alert should be sent via email to an email address we nominate and can configure as required.
about 11 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
about 16 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Add "Send Test Email" button in Plan Workflow – Email Notification Step

Dear team, Description: Please add a "Send Test Email" button directly inside the Email Notification configuration of a Plan Workflow. Current limitation (PAW 3.1.6): When configuring the email notification step in a Plan, there is no way to quick...
about 21 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

High Availability for Db2 Tuning Services

Db2 Tuning services is currently a standalone started task. We will be integrating Tuning Services into a production operational system, to provide guardrails for AI generated queries against operational data stores. As it will form part of an ope...
about 21 hours ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 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...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 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...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted