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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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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,

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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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PAW Welcome page folders layout sort

Entering the PAW Welcome page after login, all the Folders and/or Workbooks are defaulted to sort by Last Modified. This means each time a user logs in, folders/books are all moved around.Please allow us to set a default to sort by A-Z. This allow...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Make Widget Edges (black thick border box) an Optional Feature

Summary In a book, when I click to select and focus a widget (object), it shows a thick black border with padding around the widget, with a button to maximise/resize the widget (known as resizeEdge), which overlaps over other widgets. Description ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

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

Make cognos chart legends scrollable

We have a report with a bar graph along with the legend. The legend is dynamic, i.e. the values come from the prompt page. User can select few or all. When the user selects "all", the list is large enough that the graph legend is not able to accom...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW Cubeviewer: Asymmetric calculations

PAW cubeviewer introduced "on the fly" calculation within the cubeview. However these calculation only works in symetric mode which means that we can't cross specific elements of several dimensions to create calculation. A simple example in financ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Ability to display pop-up message while moving from one workflow stage to another

IBM OpenPages native workflow capability allow users to configure a workflow for several business use-cases (e.g. RCSA). User can setup different stages (e.g. Scoping, Risk Assessment etc.) and setup actions to move from one stage to another. Work...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Data validation in a skill when data source is a list uploaded from excel/csv

We would like to see an data validation option provided for a list data uploaded through an excel file. Following are the possible validations that could warn user when an incorrect is being uploaded Validation during file upload: A skill should...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Avoid new workload during Db2 Restart Light

In a data sharing environment a Db2 Restart Light was needed after an LPAR outage to remove retained locks and resolve indoubt units of recovery.The failing member was automatically restarted in light mode on one of the surviving LPARs, and showin...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Attachment to a journal in Controller Web

When posting a journal in Controller Web it would be very helpful if you could attach a file, not only write a text.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered