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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Chat to generate files / documents such as PDF or CSV OOTB

Today the OOTB chat can only generate txt, HTML or md files.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Change of Python library through a parameter and not through a symbolic link

At the present time, it is not possible to configure the use of a specific Python library into Safer Payments. The Python library in use is the one referenced in the internal configuration. The currently solution proposed to change of Python libra...
about 1 month ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Submitted

Enable Hyperlink Expression and JavaScript Click Event Support for Standard Visualizations

Currently in IBM Cognos Analytics Reports, standard visualisations such as Bar Charts and others do not support hyperlink expressions directly on chart elements. Additionally, the standard visualisation framework does not expose click event handli...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Extend visibility of queue status for users

Our HPC users have requested the ability to see what is causing their jobs to pend in more detail. This includes what jobs/how may jobs are ahead of their in the queue, what resources their jobs are constrained on, etc. with other reasons their jo...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer Under review

Limited Landing Page Customization — Client Requests Ability to Customize the Entire Page to Better Reflect Company Branding and Preferences

Currently, the areas where company-specific elements such as logos, images and branding can't be customized on the landing page. The client would like the ability to customize the entire page so that companies can fully adapt the layout, visuals a...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Needs more information

Allow the storage of secrets in PA, especially for API calls with the new function ExecuteHttpRequest

I have a client that is deploying a solution in PA SaaS. When accessing databases we can store user and password but we cannot do this when accessing an API. I think the simplest solution to this challenge is to develop Lambda function that gets t...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow end users to view TurboIntegrator error logs through Reports & Analysis in PAW

Currently, TurboIntegrator (TI) error logs are only accessible to developers through the Workbench or other technical tools.As a result: Business users cannot see the errors generated by the processes they execute. They depend on the technical tea...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

No‑Operation Detection, Warning, and Auto‑Termination

In concurrent‑license environments, many users leave SPSS Modeler Client open without performing any actual operations. This results in long periods during which a license remains occupied even though the user is not actively using the application...
about 1 month ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Submitted

Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration