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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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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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Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Update Control Mechanism for Large-Scale Environments

In large environments where multiple updates and implementations are occurring simultaneously, there is a need for an update control mechanism. For instance, consider an environment with several watsonx assistants, referred to as “sandboxes,” wher...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MAss Disconnect of users

Currently , I am able to use Architect --> Server Manager --> Disconnect users and select the users or select ALL Users I wish to disconnect from my service. I am unable to find this same functionality in PAW. I am only able to disconnect in...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Run Object Manager with certificate authentication feature

We want to Run ObjectManager.sh with certificate authentication for OpenPages on Cloud, current versions only supports username/password. Using certificate authentication strengths passwords policies for secure code.
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Add image or logo to an email notification

End users are complaining that the notification emails look like spam. There is no basic functionality in OpenPages to add a simple logo or image to help users identify that the email is legit and not phishing - due to the email originating outsid...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Drive Explorer - Sort by File Type should sort by file type text, not ascii character codes

When sorting by file type in Drive Explorer, if sorted ascending, RUX files appear before cho and all other lower case file types. I opened a ticket and was told this is because the sort is done by ascii character code. This defeats the purpose of...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration