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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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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:


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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,


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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,

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  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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Enable Dynamic Widget Titles in PAW Books Using Book Parameters or Selector Values (Live Update Based on Filters)

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books, the widget title (Visualization Properties → General → Title for Cube Views, Charts, etc.) is static text only. There is no support for book parameters, MDX expressio...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
7 months ago in Connectivity Submitted

Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Under review
341 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Please add the ability to track the progress of a Db2 Bridge LOAD operation

At present, the Db2 Bridge client does not offer a method to monitor the progress of a LOAD operation when performing a db2file_db2 data transfer.
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge Under review