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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:


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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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User Management as a Roles Permission

Move User Management Privileges from Global Privileges to a Role permission. Currently, user management is permissioned via a global privilege on a user's account. When the "user accounts" privilege is set to "change," the user can view and edit a...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clear controlled field when response is changed in controlling field

When a question is made visible and editable by a controlling field, and a user responds to that question and saves their response, but then changes their mind about the response to the controlling field, the controlled field goes back to hidden a...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Variable order mismatch in PAW

We observed in PAW, the TI which was created in 'perspective' and we tried to open the same TI in PAW and we selected cube view as a datasource and creating view with the help of open view option. When we click on preview, variable values, Previe...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto-complete and Function picker for MDX in PAW/PAfE set editor

MDX in the set editor could be greatly enhanced by having auto-complete and a function picker like rules and TI. Edit 2022-06-29: Ideally possible parameters to be shown as well as information just like TI does in PAW 2.0.77. Functionality should ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Task View - Expand/Collapse Slider

In the Task Views, it would be great to have another slider (similar to Reveal editable fields) that could expand/collapse all sections. If a user selects "Expand All," then all sections expand. If the user selects "Collapse All," all sections col...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Ability to set and edit saved parameters on Data Sets

We have a data set that contains prompt parameters to filter the results. We would like to be able to set and edit user saved parameter values without having to edit the data set. Similar to reports and report views, it would be great if we can se...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open a Pipeline or DataStage Flow from the Pipeline Canvas with 2 clicks only

For Pipeline Jobs or DataStage Job nodes in the canvas when editing a Pipeline, if you want to open the Pipeline or DataStage Flow that's being executed, you must click 4 times: Double-click the node (or right-click/menu then Open) Click the menu ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review