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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    Move or Rename a referenced Distribution List

    Cognos Admin currently supports the moving of Distribution Lists , but when someone does this, any report schedule referencing this DL breaks - we need the ability to use the functionality as intended In the same area, a DL can be renamed, but onc...
    about 12 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
    22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Clear visibility when the reporting DB sync is not happening as expected

    We depend on the reporting DB to be correct. At the moment we are not able to trust it, because there is a slow but steady stream of cases where the sync is not happening as expected. We have had multiple PMR about the specific cases, which have b...
    1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

    In V12, add (restore) the capability to manage transaction logging at cube level.

    Context V12 relies on transaction logs, a feature that is equivalent to that implemented in V11, through a Mongo DB. This feature notably allows data to be shared between replicas. While the transaction log is essential and justified for instance ...
    5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Efficient READA

    I was monitoring a task in my product. This task executes a call to the READA service to obtain the current READA buffer when posted by DB2. I was monitoring to determine why the CPU usage by that task was high. My analysis determined that 99% of ...
    about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Configurable Date Range Warning for Report Studio & Self‑Service Reporting

    a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Requested Enhancement 1. Admin‑Configurable Maximum Date Range Administrators should be able to configure the maximum all...
    1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Update Satellite Connector to dynamic ports and rotating credentials

    Technical Problem Connectivity Challenge: Client needs to connect to their on-premises Oracle RAC database using IBM Satellite connector, but it's not secure in its current configuration Dynamic vs. Static Ports: Client's security requirements...
    11 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Use report package drill-through in dashboard

    Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
    about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

    Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
    about 2 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Job query LSF API should have a filter to control number of finished jobs returned by mbatchd in order to shorten runtime of RTM gridjobs poller

    RTM gridjobs poller queries LSF for job information periodically. LSF CLEAN_PERIOD is set to 6hr, 12hr, 24hr for different clusters in Microsoft, number of finished jobs in mbatchd memory ranges from 200K to 1M. gridjobs parses finished jobs info ...
    about 3 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

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