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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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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 Heatmap as a Chart Type in the Dashboard home page

Please add Heatmap as a chart type in the dashboard - this is a heavily used graphic used in risk management and should be an essential part of any GRC system. Senior level stakeholders and Executives require this in order to do their Risk Reporti...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Add Export and Download Options for Tables

We would like the ability to export tables displayed in markdown format to external files such as CSV or Excel. Ideally, tables should include a download button so that users can easily download the displayed data in CSV/Excel format for further u...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Future consideration

Apply number format when editing a cell in PAW

We are using the german number format ("." as thousand separator and "," as decimal separator) in PAW. The format works fine for non-selected cells, but after a doubleklick into a cell the cell value is displayed with the default format (point as ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Localization support for Planning Analytics Workspace content

To translate cube, dimension and element names in Planning Analytics, it is possible to use the captions and language locale codes. For example, in PAW, the web interface and cube, dimension and element names are then displayed in the selected bro...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Align Quality Score Visibility with User Permissions

Currently, a Catalog User role cannot access the Quality tab, since it is tied to permissions that restrict data visibility. However, the Quality Score is still displayed in the Overview tab. It would be valuable to analyze the possibility of hidi...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

OpenPages Scheduler - allow client to set max concurrent jobs and display any that are queued.

Currently the system has a hard wired limit of 5 concurrently executing schedule jobs. You can start a sixth one but the system actually queues it to start when one of the others completes. However, the system does not provide any display to show ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Future consideration

In the list of catalog assets, I would like to choose which attributes are shown as headers and their order

I would like to sort the list based on a custom attribute, but now that attribute is not available as header. Basically I'd like to let users find out easily the maximum value for that field. There are also a couple other custom attributes defined...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration