Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Universal Reports Alias

Users would like to bring aliases instead of an element name in rows selectors and columns in a universal report.
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
26 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Support Lineage Ingestion for Power BI Paginated Reports Using PBIDATASET Provider

Summary Currently, Power BI Paginated Reports (created in Report Builder) that use Azure-based shared datasets (PBIDATASET provider with pbiazure://api.powerbi.com) are successfully ingested by Manta, but no upstream lineage is generated. This res...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web Functionality to schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web interface. Additionally, there shoudl be a possiblitiy to receive a success or no success notification per mail.
4 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Possibility to configure more than one data source and data mart in FAP Web

At them moment (Version 11.2.1) you can have only one Controller source database and the Add New button for datamart is enabled only if there is no Datamart created. You can have only one Controller source Datamart. We need several data sources an...
4 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Change number of lines displayed for FAP log in FAP Web

The screen solution in FAP Web logs is very bad. Only four lines are displayed and one has to scroll and flip a lot to find something. Changing zoom percentage of the web page does not help.
4 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted