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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.

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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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...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Under review

Add Book Information to Workspace TM1 Session Context

Hi all, At the moment, when a user connects via Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), the TM1 session Context field includes valuable details such as: PAfE/Version (0); Excel/Version (x64, WorkbookName, WorksheetName) This information is extremely ...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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 15 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 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...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

: Support using Schema ID for workloads using multiple SQL statements with unqualified table names.

Currently, there is no option to specify the schema id for workloads with unqualified SQL statements; therefore, it uses the user SQL id which is not correct.
5 days ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 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...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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...
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 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 5 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 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted