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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Role based data view permission in any catalog

By default, imported assets in the catalog have the option to see all data and the data profile. For a business user that needs to query just the available data assets this will give to much options to see data. This could be avoided by data acces...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Apply drill through to all tabs within dashboard

We have a dashboard where users can do a discovery for new business opportunities. The dashboard has many tabs where each of the tabs represent a use case. We also have a report, which is on transaction level and the user can download it and use i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Delivered

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

References of Cells added to sheets to be maintainable

When adding a Cell to a sheet to make a tile or card like in Power BI, there is very little flexibility with regards to maintanence. Unless you turn on the filters, it is impossible to ascertain the cell reference being pointed to. The filters inc...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Support of btrfs on Db2 11.1.3.3 is required

Daimler needs support of btrfs on Db2 11.1 on SLES 12 SP3.result of IBM PMR (Case TS000138704):“Although the DB2 documentation only lists recommended file systems, support for unlisted file system might be limited and there is no guarantee that ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

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