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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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PAX - Show attributes in exploration view

The exploration view is the most common way to show a cube view in Excel. However, it is not possible to display attributes of the dimensions which in my opinion is a big restriction because it will force us to use a DBRA function, but it is not e...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
over 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Planned for future release

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics Planned for future release

Enhanced Drill Thru in PAW

PAW currently displays all drill thru in a standard system style window that users can't interact with. I would like the ability to define the destination of a drill to any of : - a cube view- a web sheet- as a set of filters to another book This ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Allow system fields to be used in Task Focused UI Rules

Allow workflows to be driven by system fields as well as values / enumerated strings.
about 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Not under consideration

Db2 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Not under consideration

Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics Planned for future release

PAW Image local folder

When designig a PAW Book, we can insert object types "Image": to show it, we have to put an URL which addresses the Image. To do this, we need to setup a new Web Server or use an existing one (if we have...) and place all you images onto this web ...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Future consideration

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics Planned for future release