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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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Add a possibility to set the sender E-Mail for Sharing or Plan Notifications to be not the user who is making the action but a fixed mailbox

Currently PAW uses a method to set the sender of Share Mails or Notification Mails to the Person who was pressing the Button or Shares. This leads to that a configured Mailbox send in the Name of a User. That is per Definition actually Spoofing. A...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Support user-defined calculations in Universal Reports

User-defined calculations are a frequently used option when working with Planning Analytics. In Perspectives, the use of subsets made it very easy to create your own consolidations. With PAfE, there is the DefineCalc function in conjunction with D...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Planned for future release

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
7 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release

Read-only for opening balances in data entry

It should be possible to lock opening balances for data entry in web. This idea is related to this idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-217 - please reconsider This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Expand description field for Import of journals in Controller Web

Import journals in Web allows only 65 characters in description => please extend to number of digits available in Journal Entry (Controller Classic+Web) so that imported descriptions do not get cut-off. This idea was raised out of the IBM Contr...
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Custom reports in Controller web

The custom web functionality should provide more flexibility. Also concerning layouting etc. Drilldown-like reports or reports with filter functionality would also be helpful. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Export of free forms (Excel-Export)

Export of free forms to Excel should be possible as already available for standard forms. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Keep web data entry benefits – co-existence of web and Excel-like data entry

Please do not exchange data entry web with Excel! We do not want to lose the benefits of dynamic search and filter functions in data entry. Both possibilities should co-exist. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release