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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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Ability to convert Views and Tables in Data Modules into the Data Set.

If you have been building a Data Module and notice that Data Sets are required to improve the product performance it is very cumbersome to start building the Data Set using the Data Set editor and then replacing the Tables and Views in Data Module...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display attributes under general information section for OpenIGC assets in Lineage view

We have created custom attributes in IGC to capture logic for lineage. But this attribute is not displayed when we view lineage for OpenIGC assets.An example would be the column level logic custom attribute that is applicable to column assets acro...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Not under consideration

New Role in DataStage

To satisfy the segregation of duties risk requirement we need a new admin role with below functionality.Assign project roles to InfoSphere DataStage suite users in the InfoSphere DataStage Administrator client •Use the Administrator client to crea...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow a mean to display units in views

Be able to specify units of value in views.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Copy Member from Cube View

Users often want to copy the members from a cube view to reuse elsewhere. If you select members and right-click then copy, you copy then data in the view. This is particularly important with larger dimensions and zero suppressed views as users hav...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Process, Risk, Control Information can be updated right away in the task view like in the Standard UI Filtered List View

To lessen the clicks and to have the user stay in same window, enable user to update Process, Risk, Control Information right away in the task view like in the Standard UI Filtered List View.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Expression for retrieving a list of PA subsets for a dimension

An expression of some sort is needed to retrieve a list of subsets for a dimension. The use case is to be able to create a dynamic report that gives users a dropdown of available subsets, allowing them to choose which one to use in their report ou...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exclude hidden modules/data sets/packages from search in Dashboards

Dashboards include a search feature that gives users ability to use natural language to scan the content store for data sources that might contain information to answer a question of what is needed for a dashboard. This search should exclude hidde...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration