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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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Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Export all company data (forms) to Excel in Controller Web

In the Populate section it is possible to "Export data" for one form at a time. The users would really benefit if you could select to export data for all forms at one time.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Integration with Microsoft Copilot 385 , Office 365 , Sharepoint and Microsoft Team

This is very important, as follows: 1- most enterprises use Microsoft Applications in the Forefront and IBM Agentic AI for Enterprise in the Back End, 2- We can do the Digital transformation smoothly and keep the investment in Microsoft technologi...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Functionality already exists

Request for TurboIntegrator (TI) Editor with Log Access in PAfE

Dear Product Management Team, I would like to propose adding a TurboIntegrator (TI) Editor to IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), including the ability to access relevant logs, as this would greatly improve the user experience and efficiency ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Unable to add individual users to Data Source Definition(DSD) even the users are part of the group in Platform asset catalog

The individual user cannot be added to DSD's in associated catalogs even though the user is a member of group in platform asset catalog. First, the user has to be added to the catalog as a individual user even the user is a member of the group in ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted