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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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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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satellite connector only allows single destination per connection

When setup ODBC connection in IBM Planning Analytics Cloud, Satellite connector architecture only allows single destination per connection. Per IBM case TS018123063, due to the flaw of Satellite connector, we can not setup ODBC connection to Snowf...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Column-level filtering by Data Consumer on DPH UI

Hi Team, we have a high priority request from Customer to provide the flexibility to Data Consumer to do Column-level filtering of Data Product and then subscribe on those data at the DPH UI. I have stated the example scenario below: Data Publishe...
9 months ago in Data Product Hub 1

Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Db2 for IBM i Support in IBM Product Master (Partner Feedback)

We have received strong feedback from one of our business partners requesting that IBM Product Master officially support Db2 for IBM i . This partner has a proven track record of widely proposing and delivering IBM Product Master to customers. To ...
about 2 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

GetSessionID Turbo Integrator function

With TM1 Database 12, the introduction of the "ExecuteHttpRequest" has opened the door for many new and exciting possibilities within TM1. One of the possibilities is the ability for a Turbo Integrator process to make an HTTP Request against it's ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Improve password character handling in DataStage for user accounts

Passwords are restricted to the characters that are supported. When using password management tools which change passwords after a checkout, these are defined company wide to be as complex as possible, following various Cyber standards. Some of th...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted