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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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DSNI052I Work File Message Enhancement

We have frequent alerts about Work File issue, but when it is triggered by a distributed connection as below, it does not really help us much to identify the culprit. All Java threads do use the same CorrelationID and Package Name and we have tens...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Token exchange - Use token created in customer's OIDC enterprise IdP to login in CP4D

Context: Customer is building in .NET their own Data Marketplace based on IBM CP4D (IKC+DV). One of the principal users will be Healthcare, that wants to publish and share data between users in a secure platform. Then, because of security requirem...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock 0 Under review

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use SystemModstamp as an Offset in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Origin with PK Chunking

Please support using systemModstamp as an offset in the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 origin to be used with PK chunking.
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Enhance the capability to connect to Azure KeyVault and get private keys for snowflake authentication

This request is from Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd. (Formally JDA SOFTWARE GROUP_INC) As Snowflake is officially deprecating username and password authentication (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-mfa-rollout#deprecation-timeline) , we have ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Conditionally Rendered Images on Dashboard

The ability to have conditionally rendered images would add tremendous value to dashboards with KPIs, to give a scorecard look and feel. E.G. Red light appears based on target not being met, Green light appears based on target being exceeded. I re...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Possibility to change the first category for Business Terms, Data Class, etc

We currently need the possibility to change the first category of all the artifacts like Business Terms, Data Class, categories, etc.This is important because the glossary is not static and artifacts can change between domains, sub-domains, etc wi...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 7 Functionality already exists

Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release