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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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Table Dashboard widget to add text commentary

Currently slides are used to present numbers and text commentary. A table is used to structure the text commentary. Moving to Cognos Analytics we would like to be able to replicate this text commentary in a table within the Cognos dashboard. Curre...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

Add Planning Analytics for Excel to Microsoft Store

According to the policy of our internal IT only Office add-ins from the official Microsoft Store are allowed. Thus, please provide Planning Analytics for Excel in the Microsoft Store: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?product=...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

CA REST API - Add recursion option to groups and roles endpoints

Currently, when querying for list of groups or roles in CA REST API, the endpoints only return items at the root level of the namespace or the folder defined. If there are subfolders in the namespace or folder, groups/roles in this subfolders are ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for entire schema

During SAP system migration all objects in a schema need TRANSFER OWNERSHIP. This takes quite long (many minutes) for > 100.000 objects.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Request to add search or filter functionality in IBM StreamSets Control Hub - Subscriptions page

Filter feature on subscriptions page would help the customer to search for specific subscriptions easily. Currently the users will have to navigate the pages to looks for the subscriptions.
10 months ago in StreamSets 7 Under review

MFA for Data Replication login

Currently Data Replication supports local and LDAP users but we want to get Multi Factor Authentication for users to be able to login to Data Replication client. We currently use PING Authentication.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
about 1 year ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration