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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,


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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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Add Azure Synapse as a target data source

We currently use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication to replicate data from DB2i over to SQL Server. In addition, we have adopted Azure Synapse as our data warehouse platform going forward but IBM does not currently support Azure Synapse as a target. ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Restricting Workbook Tab Visibility Based on User Permissions

In this setup, a single workbook is shared across multiple user groups. Some users do not have permission to access certain data cubes, which are used in the second tab of the workbook. To improve user experience and avoid error messages, the goal...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Jupyter Notebook Integration: online library visualizations (like plotly) not available in Reports and Dashboards

All users of Jupyter Notebook integration in CA will benefit for enhanced visualization and data science functions provided by R. online libraries like plotly.js are working in Jupyter Notebooks itself but not working/not displayed when used in Da...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Search for text snippets across an Action of an Assistant

In the dialog mode, its possible to perform a search for text snippets within the Nodes, which greatly facilitates in the customer's daily tasks when its needed to find specific information and direct it exactly to where the data is located. For e...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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 ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted