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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Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

OLAP Support in Data Modules – CUG2026

Support DMR or Dynamic Cubes with proper dimensional modeling and hierarchical navigation in data modules. Same as https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CAOP-I-398 from 2018 Is now labeld as Planned for future release
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

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 ...
18 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Functionality already exists

Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Add "Send Test Email" button in Plan Workflow – Email Notification Step

Dear team, Description: Please add a "Send Test Email" button directly inside the Email Notification configuration of a Plan Workflow. Current limitation (PAW 3.1.6): When configuring the email notification step in a Plan, there is no way to quick...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

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