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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Request for PGP encryption for Cognos Analytics cube transfers

Our Cognos Analytics model requires several cubes to be build on-prem and then sent to the cloud. We understand these are encrypted once present on the IBM CA Cloud server. However, we'd like the capability to encrypt before sending them. NM can a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing host server for Database

In Infosphere Information Governance Catalog, it is not possible to change the Host Server for a database.Unfortunately, sometimes databases are moved from one server to another, and the only option we have is to make all the changes manually:- Ex...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replicate ASCII text output from Planning Analytics for Excel

We have just moved from TM1 10.2.2 to Planning Analytics Cloud (PA), and have 100+ users all using Planning Analytics for Excel (PA). Like most large companies, our business uses a number of BI tools and Databasing Tools. Therefore many reporting/...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Application/Websheet Security for V12 Server

It has come to my attention that there is no security on Application folders in the V12 / PA SaaS version. This means that any user can upload / update any file or folder. This is a major gap between V11 and V12 security capabilities. Support told...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Dynamically add applications to symrest.json of service SYMREST by Consumer or Cluster Admins

CBB cluster users want manage workflow via EGO service SYMREST, however cluster admin has to manually add the application into the SYMREST config file symrest.json and bounce the service. This increases a lot of cluster admin support work. If the ...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive accounts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration