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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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In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
4 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

improve bconf .

we have a large lsf cluster which contains many usergroup with fairshares. so every time we want to use bconf to update usershares, it would take 3 mins to complete and during process, the mbatchd is not responding. all detail you can refer to bel...
23 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Under review

Let us update the email for OPSystem account

Hi IBM Team, We have several schedulers / auto workflow start jobs that run on OpenPages and because we run this autostart workflow using System, it defaults to using the OPSystem account which will send a confirmation email if the run was success...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Planned for future release

A integrated solution for connecting external databases.

Today if you need a external database connection for Planning Analytics on CP4D, you need to provision a Windows server to run the ODBC connector to act as an intermediary between your ODBC data and Planning Analytics. Planning Analytics will poin...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

End User UI enhancement (Custom charts)

Problem Statement: Currently, we provide clients the flexibility to choose their own risk matrices. However, when using the dashboard chart, the filter options display extra values and expose certain values that users should not have access to. Wi...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Future consideration

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration