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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).


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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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  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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Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Giving option to user to Modify & Save record using Grid View.

Auditors have to perform 100's of tests every year for different auditable entities. As per current configuration, user(auditor) will have to go inside each test to perform test or to use side panlel. Customer is asking to make grid view flexible ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Future consideration

Return dynamically created views using drill-throughs

Currently drill-throughs render a different view object than the one passed to ReturnViewHandle, this is frustrating if you want to dynamically create a view in the drill through process in pass this through in the epilog. The reason you might wan...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Ability for admin to delete fields from the UI

Fields are often created in error or are no longer in use but they can never be deleted from OpenPages. This causes a lot of confusion in the administation screens. Admins should be able to at least hide these fields from their views
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Resurrect the functionality for Event Studio Agent Views

We have used Event Studio Reports for years to help identify changes to data coming from our customers and suppliers. This product has been great in helping to identify product engineering changes or new customers/suppliers etc. The data from our ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Filtered List View - Ability to Filter on Lock Status

Allow an option to filter for records that are Locked/Unlocked! This would make life a lot easier!
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

View rule: allow one field with any value to include all fields not just enum fields

When you are setting up rules in a view and you choose one field with any value it excludes all fields that are not enum fields. For example I wanted to make a field read only when my completed date field was populated, but the completed date does...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration