IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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Ability to revert data in workflows

This feature will help second line easily revert data submitted to them for review
7 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Under review

Add “Includes any of the selected users/area” filtering option

When applying filters, it would be highly beneficial to also have an option like “includes any of the selected users/area.” This enhancement would provide more flexibility in filtering, for ex for fields such as Action Owner. Ideally, this option ...
16 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Under review

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

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...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release

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