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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:


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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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Add compatibility with the latest version of React to Custom Visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. The latest version of React includes server side ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Custom Image Approach to Integrate Advanced IDEs such as PyCharm or Visual Studio Code (VSCode) in Watsonx/CP4D

In the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Watsonx/CP4D, Python development is currently facilitated through Watson Studio Notebook and JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). While these tools are sufficient for many users, more techni...
12 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Raise learning of large codebases to be a dominant requirement

As part of Linux kernel team, I have to deal with a very large codebase. Booting up with this code base is not trivial and takes a very long time. WCA team should consider the learning task a highly important feature. This can save thousands of ma...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Functionality already exists

Update notebooks to jupyter labs for full IDE integration

Current jupyter notebooks are useful for small tasks, but for full data science projects a larger ecosphere of tools and code storage are necessary. Jupyter labs is really young, but even so would fill in many of the current issues of our environm...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 5 Delivered

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Enable larger limit or 'more' functionality for code search within modeling workbench

When searching for a specific string in processes we are looking to verify that all results will be shown or enabled in PAW, for example we use a common set of code within all of our processes. The current limitation does not enable us to see that...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted