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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.

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Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Limited Landing Page Customization — Client Requests Ability to Customize the Entire Page to Better Reflect Company Branding and Preferences

Currently, the areas where company-specific elements such as logos, images and branding can't be customized on the landing page. The client would like the ability to customize the entire page so that companies can fully adapt the layout, visuals a...
about 12 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
6 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 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...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Base64 encoded pictures in PAW view

Dear community! Would it be possible to display small product images instead of text cells in the PAW view? Can this also be made dynamic? Images can be stored in books in Base64 format. Would it be possible to display the image defined in the cel...
about 4 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted