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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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blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
4 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 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...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Differentiate Runtime and Design-Time Lineage in Manta UI

Manta currently displays lineage generated from OpenLineage RunEvent (runtime) and JobEvent (design-time) in the same way with no visual distinction between them. This makes it difficult for users to tell whether lineage represents what actually r...
about 18 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Column-Level Lineage in Manta to Alation Export for OpenLineage

Manta can ingest column-level lineage from OpenLineage, but this details is not preserved when exporting to Alation. As a result, only table-level lineage is visible in Alation and critical attribute-level relationships are lost. We propose enhanc...
about 18 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

An option in the case actions to add an option to add entry to risk list.

For example, when you want to temporarily block specific type of transactions to the card/user that we have case on, but we don't want to block the card/user in the auth system or banking. And also to save some time of the users working with the s...
4 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Ability for Q-Replication queues to dynamically increase or decrease the number of agents

This kind of functionality would prevent or limit the amount of user interaction needed to resolve certain conditions. Both the customer would benefit from the product as it would be more reliable and so would IBM as this would make the product mo...

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...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 4 Submitted

Enhance Copy-Paste Functionality from Excel to TM1 Web/PAW to Transfer Full Underlying Decimal Values Regardless of Display Formatting

Dear team, When copying values from Excel (via PAfE) to TM1 Web/PAW, if decimals are hidden via formatting, only the visible integer is pasted (e.g., underlying 3.56 displays as 4 and pastes as 4). This loses precision, unlike Excel-to-Excel behav...
about 8 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted