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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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Built in function for "Select All" feature for dropdown filters in Cognos Dashboard

Currently, Cognos Dashboard filters (dropdowns with multi-select) do not provide a native “Select All / Deselect All” option. This makes it difficult for users to quickly include or exclude multiple values—especially in cases like selecting all co...
14 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Support for LISTAGG Function with Trino Data Sources

During our testing of Trino as a potential replacement for DB2 LUW data marts, we identified that the LISTAGG function, which works seamlessly with DB2 LUW, does not function as expected with Trino data sources in Cognos Analytics. Although the LI...
about 2 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Performance Improvement in Adaptive Apply replication method

We are using CDC to replicate data from DB2 to Oracle DB.At the moment we are facing performance issues described in case TS021758055. All posible workarounds were applyed in our environment (details in TS021758055) and we would like to enhance ef...
about 2 hours ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Adding Create option in Table action section of Redshift Connector stage

Currently in Redshift Connector only have Append, Replace and Truncate options only. I am proposing to add Create option in Table Action section similar to Teradata Connector. This will enable option to create table if not exists. At present Appen...
42 minutes ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

Usage of storage volume connector within the flow

We have created storage volume connector with cpadmin id. We have provided editor access to developers. When developer logs in with his/her id, when we try to use storage volume connector stage within their flow, it gives token related errorCDIWA0...
about 1 hour ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Support for Oracle SQL Loader Lineage in Manta

Background In our current data pipelines, Oracle SQL Loader plays a critical role in loading data from flat files into Oracle tables. These loads are orchestrated through shell scripts and control files (.ctl), which define the mapping between inp...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Apply format to cube viewer based on MDX template parameters

When adding a member format within the format manager, when selecting from the member list any elements in the dimension/hierarchy selected are present, and so to are member calculations. What isn't available to select is an MDX Template Variable....
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Mail function to inform all users

Possibility to inform all users in one go, e.g. on timeline changes, closing process or structure changes or any other information that needs to be distributed to this audience. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted