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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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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

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

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Scheduling consolidation jobs in Controller Web

Possibility to plan consolidation jobs with a certain frequency, i.e. consolidate on an hourly basis – also in web. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Custom reports in Controller web

The custom web functionality should provide more flexibility. Also concerning layouting etc. Drilldown-like reports or reports with filter functionality would also be helpful. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Definition of warnings in addition to errors

It would be helpful if warning rules could be defined. E.g. for issues being not plausible or reconciliations which are not relevant for the closing. Possibility to define additional check rules which would then appear in yellow in the reconciliat...
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Change date format for easier data entry

It would be much easier and quicker to enter periods in web if the format would be YYYY-MM instead of YYYY:MM. Would save time using the number keyboard. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
19 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Data entry forms with drilldown and filter functionality

Data entry form should have a drilldown and filter functionality. For example if a form is created like a trial balance this will allow the user to directly use this as a dynamic report at the same time. This idea was raised out of the IBM Control...
19 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted