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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,

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  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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WDX - DBT - Creating tables in DBT without mentioning the S3 path

Got a temporary solution from IBM team to mitigate this. Please refer to the ticket - TS021709439 This should be an enhancement part of the product.
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enable Dynamic Widget Titles in PAW Books Using Book Parameters or Selector Values (Live Update Based on Filters)

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books, the widget title (Visualization Properties → General → Title for Cube Views, Charts, etc.) is static text only. There is no support for book parameters, MDX expressio...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable Advanced Border Configuration (Style, Color, Thickness) for Row/Column Headers and Enhanced Borders for Data Cells in PAW Format Manager

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Format Manager allows basic formatting for data cells and headers, but border options are severely limited: Data cells: Borders exist only as simple on/off toggles (n...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Query History

NationWide would like to see more columns reported by SYSMONITOR_QUERY_HISTORY of V8. The useful columns would be: SQLCODE, SQLSTATE, Error Description, CORR ID, fetch count, resultset bytes.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Planned for future release

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review
513 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Add native background image / watermark support for Books and Pages (transparent logo as subtle background)

Dear team, Currently, Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books only allow a solid background color (via Book Properties → Background color). There is no built-in option to set a background image (e.g., a semi-transparent PNG logo) that acts as a t...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Guardrails Dashboard

Introduce a comprehensive dashboards view that provides visibility into guardrails, including pass/block metrics and detailed insights for each guardrail category (e.g., violence, PII, hate, self-harm, etc.). Currently, users lack a centralized, v...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance Under review

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted