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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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When editing a report query, show query name

In Cognos 10 Report Studio, when working in a report query you could see the query highlighted in the query toolbar panel on the left side of the screen. In Cognos Analytics, the query starts highlighted, but as soon as any data item in the query ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Keep formatting from PAW view when exporting to Excel

The request is to keep PAW view formatting also after an export to Excel is done. Exports from a PAW view to excel becomes a raw data export and very hard to navigate. Often simple formatting has been applied to the PAW view on row or column level...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Ability to view HTML source/preview in Rich Text Editor

Rich Text Editor in the New UI is not showing the preview appropriately. In few cases, spaces are skipped between the paragraphs. As the result, the values are not rendered as desired in the commerce site. It is a challenge for the business user t...
10 months ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

trim_char_to_varchar feature for FlexRep

Hi we have requirement to replicate data from db2 to cockroach db. db2 we have char data type columns and respective columns in cockrachdb are varchar. So we would need to have trim_char_to_varchar system parameter at the datastore level in FlexRe...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Delivered

Cells locked for data entry in the form's Excel layout (standard form), should be locked also in CCR Web

In some standard forms it's necessary to lock a cell for data entry by using "Cell specification" within the Excel layout. It's an issue that this locking is not supported in Controller Web.
almost 6 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

dashboard infographic - centred on page

A dashboard created with the infographic template is always left aligned. It pushes the dashboard upto the left hand edge of the browser window. This makes the dashboard look bad, it makes it look like it is wasting a lot of screen estate. Typical...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

PAW: drill-through view doesn't allow Set Editor to be used

We created drill-through processes, rules and views to allow users to drill to another view. We found that such drill-through views which are opened as a result of a drill action, do not allow user to open Set Editor in the dimensions of the view....
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted