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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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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:


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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,


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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,

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


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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.

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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Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Native Hover & Click Feedback for PAW Action Button

User Story As a PAW Modeller, I want the native Action Button properties to be extended with hover and click feedback as defined by the Carbon Design System, so that I can give buttons visual feedback like any other Carbon-conformant IBM applicati...
about 17 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Online reorg with discard and allow parallel processing on data partitioned tables.

Db2 on Z has the capability. Would be implemented the same way by passing a where clause as a parameter to the reorg command. Anyone who has very large data partitioned tables that will require purging of data. Also allow online reorg to remove re...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on AWS RDS Submitted

Allow Profile to be Selected Upon Login

Users assigned to multiple profiles in OpenPages frequently lose track of which profile is currently active, since that information is buried in a side menu item. Many users don't realize they need to switch profiles to access different content se...
about 10 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 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...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Under review

Relationship activity should also be visible on the child object

When an object is associated to a parent object, this relationship activity is only visible on the parent object activity tab and not on the child object. It would be really convenient for the users to also have this relationship activity on the c...
about 13 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 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...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 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...
1 day 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 ...
1 day 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, ...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted