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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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Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Not under consideration

Provide SCOPE(GROUP) option for STOP/START PROFILE

Provide for a SCOPE(GROUP) option for START/STOP PROFILE commands similar to START/STOP PROCEDURE.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Calculations on single measure (ie YTY/QTQ on rev measure) in Dashboard

Today in Cognos Analytics Dashboard we are unable to perform calculations on a single measure.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Add "Master Detail Relationships" to Singletons

Singleton is the only data container object in Report Studio that does not support master detail relationships. While it is usually possible to get around this limitation by using repeaters, some cases require drastic and complex work-arounds.
over 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under 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
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) Future consideration

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Not under consideration