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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.

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Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support Fabric OneLake as a staging location for the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement / pain point (real-life scenario):We are implementing CP4D's "Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse" connector for a multi-country banking client whose entire data platform is built natively on Microsoft Fabric — a single Fabric works...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

DB2 VTAM to TCP change on location length

Hi team, We are doing testing on DB2 ZOS VTAM to TCP convert. We have some DB2 subsystem with longer than 8 char. to setup DB2 IPNAME didn't raise anything, but when we try to query it, we can not use the existing location name, but have to define...
about 22 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Request for Automated SSL/TLS Certificate Management and Keystore Renewal for IBM Cognos Controller & Controller Web

With industry standards restricting commercial SSL/TLS certificate validity to a maximum of 398 days (and moving towards shorter 90 to 200-day cycles), the manual overhead required to update certificates across IBM Cognos Controller (CCR) and Cont...
about 14 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Support Entra ID client secret credential (Service Principal) for Azure Blob Storage staging in Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement: The Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector in IBM DataStage SaaS supports a bulk write (Load) mode that requires Azure Blob Storage as a staging layer via COPY INTO. However, the Azure Blob Storage staging option within the ...
12 days ago in DataStage 3 Submitted

Aggregate-aware query routing for relational Data Modules

Please add aggregate awareness to IBM Cognos Analytics Data Modules for relational sources and if possible for Framework Manager models. Modelers should be able to register physical aggregate tables or views and map them to a logical detail fact o...
about 7 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Db2 should have a logo as other database products do e.g. Postgres, MongoDb etc

when writing and presenting information in a data flow OR documentation it will be helpful if there was a logo to represent Db2. Most other database products have logos which are instantly recognisable.
about 9 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

add the additional LDAP user

Please refer to the case TS022863307 “CDC Access Server should automatically recreate or retry the LDAP connection when encountering CommunicationException: Connection reset or SocketException, instead of retaining a stale connection from the pool...
about 10 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Parallel Chunk Backup for ON-Bar and ifxclone

Large Informix dbspaces and sbspaces often consist of many chunks added over time. Although Informix 15 supports very large instances, ON-Bar and ifxclone process chunks within a dbspace or sbspace sequentially. A 5 TB sbspace with 30 chunks backe...
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

DB2 UI should support selection of active tenant

As with db2 12 multitenant support was added, using the UI of the DB2 Cloud service is limited when using the tenant functionality. While for the SQL window it is still possible to use "Set Tenant X" as a first statement followed by the actual SQL...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted