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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


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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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Need more visualizations like Gantt Chart for Project Mgmt , bar race chart animation in Dashboards/Reports

create more advanced vizs and keep it somewhere same like Power BI Marketplace and ppl who have signed in and using Cognos should be able to download and use advanced charts which are useful for many complex data representations.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

AVI stage – CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS not available

THR is using AVI Stage to build the process of address verification. The census data information which we are looking for are CENSUS_BLOCK, CENSUS_ID, CENSUS_TRACT, COUNTY_FIPS. We are getting this information with CASS Verification through Altery...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Delivered

Clear is very dangerous in PAw

In Paw the main menu Clear is too easy to set off by mistake. It is already in the data spreading menu and should only be accessed from there, not in the first menu right click.In addition, it gives no warning that you are clearing data. Finally, ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

support mysql as CDC source

More and more clients are using Mysql database to run business, they need solution of getting out real-time data of Mysql. This requests CDC support Mysql as data source.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Provide backup and restore procedures on Manta installed on-prem

Manta Documentation should have: 1. Procedures to backup all Manta data and config without requiring Manta to be shut down. This ensures that periodic backups of Manta can be taken without adversely affecting its availability. 2. Procedures to res...
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Have multiple WD instances on one CP4D install

Have multiple WD instances on one CP4D install Hi, Currently, We can't deployment multiple WD instance services, this may bring some limit especially sensitive data. Please consider adding support for this. Our scenario needs to support multi depa...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered

Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Log the Source Client IP Address in the system logs / audit logs

As per our security requirements, we need to see the IP Address of the machine from where the user has accessed the IBM Cloud Pak for Data web console. In the current system, we don't see any evidence for the same. I have worked with the support t...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Delivered