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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


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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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Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Preview of log/text files without sub-menu navigation in Drive Explorer in PAW

When using the Rich tier, it was easy to be able to review log files simply by opening the text file (via double click) in File Explorer. Now, we have to navigate to a preview via a menu or download the file before opening. It would be great if a ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Delivery of SOAM package with Python 3.13 support

> What is your expected timeline? As soon as possible as developers are currently blocked. By Friday 20th of June >The desired platform (Linux or Windows)? Linux x64 > The desired package (cluster package or DE package or client package?)...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Delivered

when uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of an excel file

When uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of a single excel file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add more columns for job export

from job details view, we can export current in file, but the list of avail columns of the RTM settings -> job export view is limited compared to what we can display in the job detail view and also what's avail in the DB table. Can you please e...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

TM1 Web - upload PDF files

We have some PDF Documents to be published in TM1 Web (Web Interface used by our users). TM1 Web currently does not support downloading these files, and there is no feature in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) to upload PDF files. I would like o...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LastUpdated property in TM1 REST API: most recent processes/dimensions/...

I have often a need to sort processes by last updated time. For instance, from DEV to PROD, I only need to get the processes updated in let's say, the current month. Which processes are more recent: I don't need to push processes from server A to ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Scan openManta extension csv files from Git

There are several cases when external programs want to send lineage to Manta because Manta does not support a particular feature. For example, Manta doesnt support PROC EXPORT in sas, that connects a file to a sas program. Users can write external...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered