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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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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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Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Submitted

Informational reconcilation rule

In IBM Controller shall be enhanced with a capability that allows non‑blocking plausibility checks to be executed as part of the consolidation workflow, including all stages of the reconciliation process. These checks are designed to identify unus...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Add GUI-based enforcement of minimum client version for Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Dear team, In earlier TM1 versions, administrators could block outdated client versions by setting the ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg. This parameter has since been deprecated and is no longer supported or available in current releases...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance (CA, TM1, PAW)

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Analytics stack (Cognos Analytic...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve SMF data for DVM Outbound

Currently DVM Outbound provides very limited SMF data. We would like to see details similar to that captured for DVM Inbound, specifically raw bytes transferred. Also, for CICS processes it currently only captures the CICS region where the call to...
about 17 hours ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer - Folder Size Visibility & Performance Transparency

Problem statement / real-life scenario:When working with Drive Explorer in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), administrators and power users frequently need to review folder details to understand performance issues. In real production environment...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 4 Submitted

Db2 for z/OS – InSync: make the LogReaderTask commit interval configurable

In replication scenarios with Integrated Synchronization (InSync) (Db2 Analytics Accelerator / Data Gate), LogReaderTask needs to access compression dictionaries to decompress log records. In contention situations, this can result in decompression...
5 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for ALIAS for table or view

To drop an alias for a table or view you need high privileges (SYSADM, SYSCTRL or System DBADM) or ownership of the alias. Aliases that were created before DB2 V9 do not have an owner and some other aliases have the wrong owner. It would help a lo...
10 minutes ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted