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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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Drive Explorer performance increase in Planning Analytics On Cloud

As from Nov 2025 IBM have decommissioned PA rich tiers we are facing performance issues when we are working with Planning Analytics drive explorer. When we are selecting anything in drive explorer or typing something there is lag between text show...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance uploading files within Task Focused UI

Uploading files within in the Task Focused UI has currently some limitations:- not possible to add other fields (e.g. enumerated fields) within upload screen- the version history is not available within the Task Focused UI- Download button within ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

Enable Provisioning Environment for PA on Cloud

We need a mechanism to enable user provisioning that does not rely on a single primary environment, as we have multiple user communities within our organization who should not have access to the other production environments. Additionally, we requ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SQLite db Connector

JDBC Jar files in Google are not useful to work with SQLite database files from DataStage 11.7.1. Please Add a connector / ODBC / JDBC to connect to SQLite database file from DataStage.
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enhance EXPLAIN in order to no longer need Informix server access

Currently Informix EXPLAIN generates a server side file. For developers that are working from remote machines, it becomes problematic to retrieve the explain files when they have restricted access to the Informix Server machine. There are 2 undocu...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

search for module/package when adding metadata to report

add search capability to 'add file' dialog. Let me search for metadata (module/package) rather than manually looking through folders
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Data Modules - Data Source Sort and Filter Functionality

When adding data sources to a data module, the listing of uploaded files (or data servers, etc) can be very large. Right now, there is no organization of this list. If you could add a folder structure to that result set, or filtering, that would h...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration