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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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When using REST APIs in Data Virtualization: support OAuth 2.0 authentication with client credential grant.

Customer would like the support of OAuth 2.0 authentication with client credential grant.
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Add missing feature to Glass UI: Show number of outputs for a report

In the old Admin Console, when looking at View Report Output Versions, the right pane shows the number of outputs. This is missing in GlassUI and, for bulk reports, is a useful information to have that cannot be found anywhere else.
about 8 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Looking for the "Use Connection String" option in Slowly_Changing_Dimension stage Surrowgate Key.

Hello IBM Team, The Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD) stage with Surrogate Key functionality currently lacks a "Use Connection String" option for configuring database connections. We are requesting the addition of a "Use Connection String" configura...
about 10 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

CM-SYS-5157 Content Manager

During Cognos startup, Content Manager can start faster than the dispatcher and temporarily generate CM-SYS-5157 messages, even though the system becomes normal after all components complete startup. These messages appear as real errors and can ca...
about 11 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Informix latest version of 14.10 and 15.0 on OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)'

Hi Informix Team, We can see at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1079427 , that Informix Server 14.10 and 15.x is not released for Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat). The current supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will EOS in June 2027 . Thank you ve...
about 13 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Make it easier to find out which lookup reference link has duplicates

If you have a flow with a lookupstage with several lookup links and one of those has duplicates on the key, then you get a warning message with which you can find out which stage caused the warning, but unfortunately not which link. We have flows ...
about 17 hours ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add native background image / watermark support for Books and Pages (transparent logo as subtle background)

Dear team, Currently, Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books only allow a solid background color (via Book Properties → Background color). There is no built-in option to set a background image (e.g., a semi-transparent PNG logo) that acts as a t...
about 17 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Make CSV export date fields in a readable format

We noticed that when exporting data as csv from extended masterdata queries section, the timestamp-type fields get exported in UNIX epoch format in contrast to the UI which applies a human readable date/time format. We propose that this should cha...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Extension of the commentary functionality in Planning Analytics Workspace

We would like to request an enhancement of the current commentary functionality in Planning Analytics Workspace. At the moment, the comment feature is limited to a single free‑text box. This is not sufficient for our business requirements, because...
about 19 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow multi‑sheet selection for refresh in PAfE

In Perspectives, even if several worksheets were selected in Excel, Shift+F9 could be used to refresh the active worksheet. In Planning Analytics for Excel, this is not possible using either the keyboard shortcut or the menu bar.
about 19 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted