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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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.

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    Stacked bar chart with line

    In PAW, we require a stacked bar chart with a line as seen on the screenshot attached. The values of the line are from the same dimension as the values from the stacked bar chart. This would help us to compare different planning versions in one di...
    about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

    Glossary on Dashboards

    When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

    Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

    IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

    Need to see all users Personal folders when I log-in as Administrator

    We need feature that when admin person logs-in to C11 (Cognos Analytics), he/she should be able to see all users contents from their personal folders (My Folders content). Case I opened with IBM Cognos Support is "TS001471285" and Analysts confirm...
    about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Cognos SQL generation control in Server Setting

    Many reports / packages have been developed and deployed by users.It takes time and cost to implement SQL correction for each report package.There is a need for a method that responds with restrictions on the entire system.
    almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Folder Level Export

    We are commenced our development work with CP4D and trying to migrate the flows and pipelines to CP4D model environment manually. When look for option to export on folder wise there is no option to export. It only allowing us to have individual ob...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

    HASH function

    Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provid...
    over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

    Auto save workbooks prior to automatic disconnect

    The new release of Paw forces a disconnect after 60 minutes of inactivity. There are a number of times when we are working on reports or development that we are called away for a meeting that will last over 60 minutes. When we return all of our wo...
    almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

    MVS CANCEL should issue DB2 CANCEL THREAD first

    Db2 and z/OS development should work together to integrate MVS CANCEL command and DB2 CANCEL THREAD. Since the DB2 recommended action is first Cancel thread in DB2 and then issue the MVS CANCEL, the MVS CANCEL command should automatically cancel d...
    about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Email notifications on Reporting Framework Generation status in IBM OpenPages

    Why it is useful? Generating reporting framework generation in IBM Openpages takes a longer time from 4 hours - 8 hours or sometime even more upto 40 hours. It is not possible to keep monitoring whole time during the process. Many times it gets fa...
    almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Not under consideration

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