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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:


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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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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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WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Move functionality delivered via extensions into Cognos Analytics.

Extensions are good to get new functionality into the tool quickly. But some functionality delivered via extensions should rather be implemented directly into cognos analytics. e.g. the extension widgetexport which makes it possible to export widg...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

bring back slice to excel in planning analytics workspace

previously in tm1web, it was possible to prepare a cube view by slicing and dicing to the right filters and dimensions, and hit slice to excel to create an excel file with excel formulas to link to the cube data. in paworkspace, it is no longer po...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

SAS datasets for IKC Data Quality Requirements

We have a new customer request for analyzing SAS dataset( in .sas7bdat format) in IKC for Data Quality requirements. As per IBM point of contact for us, this connector is not available in IKC now. Requesting to add this connector in CP4D future re...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 3 Under review

Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable Random Sampling in Data Preview

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data, the preview functionality currently displays 1,000 consecutive records from the dataset. This approach often does not represent the overall content, since consecutive rows may contain similar or homogeneous data. The pro...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review