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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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Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Improve Object Selection Stability in Tree Pane of Planning Analytics Workbench

Dear IBM Support Team, I am submitting this enhancement request to address an inconsistency in the object selection behavior within the Tree Pane of the Planning Analytics Workbench. Currently, selecting and copying object names is unreliable, whi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Automatic data validation by using asnclp create qsub with different data type column mapping

Related to the case TS020335936 Scenario: Consider the following qsub creation: mapping VARCHAR(26) to TIMESTAMP(6) TRGCOLS EXCLUDE (RECORD_TIME, MES_RECORD_TIME, SITE_CD, D_KEY, CHANGE_TYPE, CHANGE_TIME) EXPRESSION ( "'MES2'" TARGET SITE_CD, "cur...

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Synchronize PAW user groups in Planning Analytics databases automatically or in a process

Currently when adding a user to an existing security group in Planning Analytics Workspace, we have to go into our Planning Analytics database and synchronize the user group so that the security update is reflected in the database. It would be hel...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
230 VOTE

Bursting reports with email notification

Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 10 Planned for future release

Oracle NetSuite connector

Customers have a growing amount of ERP and ERP vendors do not like applications to connect to the back end data source. Customer is requesting for the ability to connect to Oracle NetSuite through API or other means. Once the connector is availabl...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Needs more information
117 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration