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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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  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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Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Login in as function for supporting users

Would be nice to have a log in as function where you could choose a user and log into the system as they are set up. This would help troubleshooting access issues, data visibility, security etc. Having this functionality would allow us to resolve ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to append data to data set

Most of our Cognos users are asking for the option/ability to incrementally update the data in Data Sets. Could you please provide that ability? This helps avoid putting unnecessary burden on the database and Cognos application compared to doing a...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAfE: IBM Connections: Avoid Automatic Addition of Connection URLs When Opening Workbook

When opening workbooks, the "IBM Connection URLs" used during the creation of the workbook (likely stored in the worksheet's custom properties "COR_Report" and/or "COR_Server") are automatically added to PAfE (CommManagerSettings.xml) without noti...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

CP4D - Reference Data Sets - Column Descriptions and Default Character Length

DRAFT, enhance it based on the details at: https://ibm-analytics.slack.com/archives/CMBN9DB9C/p1758281856675439 The business would like to add a “Description” value and have the “Default character length” value displayed for the column names “Code...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Under review

API Key authentication for db2 database during open scale configuration

We have cloud pak for data installed on ROSA in AWS and we have deployed db2 service on cp4d along with other services(WQ,watsonx.ai,watsonx.gov etc) during open scale configuration using db2 database UI prompt to enter username/password but it fa...
2 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Admin should have an option to block (disable) an LLM model available

The IA governance area is requesting that the admin should have an option to disable an LLM available in Orchestrate to attend cases where the governance area did not approve some model for security reason. Exemple: Lets suppose that AI gov team d...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Give priority in the general search for assets that have a certain tag

Hello! In the world of data, we're constantly migrating from one technology to another, from one architecture to another. In other words, we're constantly changing to align with the company's data strategy. One of the most challenging aspects of t...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release