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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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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

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Option to hide the skill tiles in the home page without affecting the skill functionality

To enhance an optional feature, when enabled, it can introduce a level of abstraction that hides individual skills within the skill flow from WxO chat window. This allows only the skill flow to be displayed in WxO chat, reducing potential confusion.
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Ability to View the User Who Checked Out the File in Task and Grid Views

In a collaborative environment, where multiple users are working on the same file, knowing who is actively working on or has "checked out" a file is crucial for effective teamwork and coordination. Here's an elaboration on why tracking this inform...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add Column Headers in a PAW View

When you have a 2 dimensional view in PAW, we would like to group the elements displayed in the columns to make the display more readable. The aim is to display this grouped name above the column elements (simulating something similar to stacking ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Image link from PA Cube Cell Data

Ability to store a image URL in a PA Cube Cell, and display it as an image in PAW. Ultimately, allowing the user to reelect a synchronized drop down menu, and have the image source change, and the image change with it.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring Data for Online Models - CP4D

Hello, we are requesting for info on online deployments. At the moment, we are able to get logs via nginx pods of the requests that come through a model, but more info would make a difference for customers. For example there could be a monitoring ...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

WKC - Metadata Crawler to import lineage Information for standalone DataStage installation

WKC in CPD can not display operational lineage for DataStage implementations in a remote environment. We will request the option to extract/crawl lineage relevant information that can be easily automated integrated in WKC without exporting from Da...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Use variable_path as an option for session variables

In Assistant Dialog mode, it was possible to create more robust functions using Spel (<? ?>) and manipulating JavaScript properties. This approach avoided the need to process this information beforehand in Expressions within context variable...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted