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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.

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.

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Take user session info from Teams activity objects, to enable usage of user session tokens for permissions

I understand from the documentation that Member credentials are not supported on downstream channels, such as MS Teams which are we are interested in using. When a user accesses an agent via Teams, there is no capability to sign in via the OAuth c...
6 minutes ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

File Check in / Check out : the popup button " Enable modification merges when the server file becomes avaiable " should be functional

Hello Team, Currently, when editing a Microsoft Office file ( pptx, docx, xilx ... ), when the file is already checked out by another end-user, there's a popup appearing which propose two options : 1- open in read-only ( this option works as expec...
about 1 hour ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other Submitted

Option to use symmetric encryption of SSO token

At times, our SSO token can be too large for IBM provided public key to encrypt, which practically makes it impossible to use this feature of sending the user_payload in the ClientJWT. Please consider revising the encryption requirement - options ...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

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

Conditional Formatting Bug in PAW

When adding a new conditional formatting rule, it fails to show in the format manager all rules screen. The formatting applies successfully, but does not allow to delete or edit the conditional format rule because it does not show. This needs to b...
about 6 hours ago in Planning Analytics 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 14 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

Encoding "Override to binary" for GRAPHIC columns with code page assigned

CDC for Db2 z/OS (native engine) currently does not support encoding conversion for GRAPHIC fields with assigned code page (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=console-supported-column-mappings) It is common practice to reuse Db2 fie...
1 day ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted