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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Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Functionality already exists
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Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Future consideration

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Support Model Input View when using AI in Grid Add Action button

Enable **View definition** input type for "Set Relationship" models by: 1. Allowing the **Add** or **Associate** button to trigger models with view definition input 2. Passing the full view context (all fields including contextual related objects)...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features Under review

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