Skip to Main Content
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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results

Showing 60

PAW Dashboard: No size adjustment of the diagram content when using an iterator

Request from a customer: He wants to display different bar charts filtered by a set(or mulitselector) with an iterator in a bar chart object. Depending on the set and multiple selection, different numbers of iterators may be created. The object ad...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW Dashboarding: Scroll bar in cell visualiszation and/or exploration + text formatting

Request from a customer. He wants to store long texts in cubes and want wo to display them in a PAW Book. Because texts can be very long and the size of the book page is not sufficient, it should be possible to scroll through the text in the visua...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Ability to set option "show item axis labels" only 1x when using repeated columns

Let's take the example a Waterfall chart with repeated columns . Attached are 2 screenshots: 1st screenshot: the option "Show item axis labels" is enabled => the labels are repeated for every column (they are blanked out in the screenshot) 2nd ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Customizable Tooltips for Enhanced Data Interaction in Reporting Canvas

Introducing advanced, customizable tooltips across various containers—such as lists, crosstabs, and charts—within the reporting canvas. This feature would allow users to display detailed reports or additional data visuals as pop-up overlays when h...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Include row numbers of rules when displaying Trace Cell from cube.

When troubleshooting rules in a large rules file, it would be much easier to identify which rule is being triggered if the row numbers were included in the Trace Cell. Currently, you have to manually search the file to locate the triggered rule an...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Use variable_path as an option for session variables

In Assistant Dialog mode, it was possible to create more robust functions using Spel (<? ?>) and manipulating JavaScript properties. This approach avoided the need to process this information beforehand in Expressions within context variable...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace object sizes

Problem Description There is currently a maximum size to the content the PAW backup.ps1 script can manage. If the PAW container databases exceed this maximum size, then the backup.ps1 script fails. Currently there does not seem to be a way to de...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Assistant does not respect Locale settings when displaying date mask

Users are confused when Assistant asks for Date inputs. It displays a mask of mm/dd/yyyy even those the regional settings and the Locale are set to 'en-NZ'. Despite being a bug, IBM Support require this to be raised as an idea. Support reference: ...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted