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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,

  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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Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

parent folder has Full Control access, but one of its subfolders has restricted inherited permissions or limited View/Edit access

Within the "Shared/ABC" location, the user has "Full Control" access at the parent folder level. However, one of the subfolders inherits permissions but shows “View & Edit” access only. When the user attempts to grant Full Control access to an...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Data Overlap in the Lookup Table in IBM Controller, Batch queue > queue>maintain view

The issue happened due to the data overlap in the lookup table in IBM Controller due to which SAP_Stage data in lookup table i.e. Data import specification or in Maintain> Batch queue manage view by using the ADM id which shows the status faile...
2 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Login Threshold Alert - Too many logins in one calendar day

An email alert should be triggered when a user logs in 12 times or more within a single calendar day. This alert should be sent via email to an email address we nominate and can configure as required.
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

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...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
11 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
23 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Future consideration

Auto-scale and redeploy model on hardware errors

When a hardware issue occurs — for example, a GPU ECC error — and it is detected at the application layer, the model should be automatically rescheduled and redeployed to a healthy node. This mechanism should ensure service continuity by isolating...
9 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Submitted