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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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Improved status on Workspace processes

With docker only recently being ported to windows, we seem to lack a dashboard or portal that we can tell the status of all related processes allowing an admin to know when workspace is in a state to allow user community logins. Currently we look ...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Informix support for Windows Server 2019

Hi, in Germany we have some big ESA customers like Unify Software and Solutions who purchase at roughly 600k licenses per year. This week they and our ESA VAD Bytec both asked when we will have support for Win 2019 in place. At Unify this determin...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Cross Track from Cognos report should open in a tab in the OpenPages UI

When using cross track from a Cognos report to an OpenPages object it opens in a new browser window. This is very confusing for the user. Instead, it should open as a tab in the OpenPages interface, in the same browser tab.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Filter by multiple facets values via Content Miner UI

Currently, when we want narrow down our analysis using the value of multiple facets, we need to select each facet value one by one on the Content Miner UI, This can be very cumbersome if we have a large number of facet values. So, we would like to...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Open a TM1 session in Perspectives/PAfE through non-defaultNamespace

We are setting up a multi-factor authentication (MFA) to login to TM1. This means in Cognos Analytics we have a namespace from type “ADFS”. Now there are some technical service users who cannot have a second factor. They can only login with 1 fact...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Wrap Dims in PAX

Hi, my DB has 21 dimensions. Therefore in Planning Analytics Excel that means my users do not have a FULL view of all the selections in all the dimensions in their exploration view. They have to click left and right in the Overview window pane and...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add Windows Authentication (LDAP) for SQL Server database connections

Currently Cognos has the ability to use Windows Authentication for SQL Server database connections, it is limited to using Active Directory only. We use LDAP and cannot use this functionality. We would like the ability to use this functionality wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Launch Citrix Receiver Session on Full Screen Mode by default

In order to allow our users to be able to access Cognos Controller from home, we are implementing WVD (Windows Vitrual Desktop), but it seems to have a compatibility issue with the IBM Citrix DPI settings, because when the users maximize the Contr...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration