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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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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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The ability to show "no values available" on websheet

On a websheet on Planning Analytics Workspace(PAX), when a user changes elements on dimensions and click Rebuild Sheet, the ability to show "no values available" is necessary. Although "no values available" message appears on Architect, it doesn't...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Save the preferred default view of a project (Asset types)

The customer suggests to add an option to save the preferred Asset types view of a project so that they can focus on the type of the items with which they work frequently. The number of the items in a catalog may be huge, and to make the view mana...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered

Preview ODBC Source, change back to show 10 records in PAW Version 73

Prior to PAW version 73 when previewing the data source using an ODBC datasource the first 10 records where displayed, with the release of PAW 73 you can only preview the first record. This is a big hindrance to testing your SQL when you don't hav...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Re-architect to not require permanent storage of userids and passwords for access

The current architecture of Tuning Management Services component of Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS requires a permanent storage of a userid and password in order to facilitate use of QWT. Our shop uses Multi-Factor authentication for human user...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enhancing Custom Output Forms for Comprehensive Data Display

Currently, Watson Orchestrate's Custom Output Forms lack support for retrieving specific fields from lists or arrays, limiting the collaborative display of data from different skills. This idea proposes an improvement to enable the extraction and ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

AWS Redshift support On Cloud environment

AWS Redshift is one of the top Data Warehousing options in the market, adding the capability to connect to it in a On Cloud environment would benefit lots of users, as well as making the free trial of Cognos fit enough to create a proof of concept.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
almost 2 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release