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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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Navigation Paths for Data Modules

Need to have the option of bring a navigation path create in a data module forward when you link it into another data module Steps Create 'Data Module A' which contains Navigation Path(s), security, property setting Create 'Data Module B' and s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add and Edit Validation Rules for PA Contributor & Workspace

Adds Value to define the Input data validations for budget values.Range for InputRelative % increase or decrease from other elements
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Folder Filter for OpenPages Dashboards

Currently Charts are summarizing data for the whole organization as for example ERM users are given access at the Organization Root Level. There should be a mechanism to apply the Organization/ Business Entity Folder Filter (which we can apply at ...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Future consideration

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Option to export results to excel when used "view tabular data" for Join query

User wants to have a option to export "View tabular data" results to excel for join queries.Right now, when you click on this option, it shows data in HTML but doesn't have option to export to excel
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Leverage change history in new UI

Although sensibly de-prioritised, change history is an important future addition to the new UI. This request focuses on how change history could be better presented (the current standard UI change history format is not easy to read). Option 1. Ea...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

PAW Dashboard: Bar chart - Target field value labeling and formatting

Request from a customer. Labeling the target data line in bar charts when turning on the value labeling function. Additionally the possibility to format the line (dotted line, Make it continuous in the diagram and do not attach it to the bar, etc.)
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW Books: Hovering/Selection of an element on for example a bar chart, highlights the data point in another synchronized obeject (exploration)

During a customer training session on PAW Dashboarding, it was noted that interactivity between visualization objects is important. They imagined that you could hover over or click on an element in a diagram (for example a bar in a bar chart) with...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted