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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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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,

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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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Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Dashboard Cascade with Dates

I have a model with 3 fields - Year, Year-Month, and Date. In reporting, I can set up a set of cascading prompts that allow for selecting the Year and then the subsequent months of the selected year and after selecting a Year-Month, the subsequent...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Button to Download Data from Cube Drill to Database

The problem raised by the client is that there is no way to prevent users from downloading the information extracted from the drill of a Planing Analytics cube to an external database. They want to block this download because the data is sensitive...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Need a session time out warning pop-up in Planning Analytics Workspace.

To enhance user experience and prevent loss of unsaved work, we suggest implementing a session timeout warning pop-up in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). Currently, when a user session times out due to inactivity, the system logs the user o...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Jupyter Notebook Templates for Spark (Cloud Pak for Data > Projects) UI validation support for extra "=" characters

Jupyter Notebook templates for Spark include the Spark Configuration field to specify extra spark configurations. Currently the UI validation expects key=value but fails when more than one equals '=' character is present. When the UI validation fa...
22 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Master Data Management support on DB2 v12.1

DB2 v12.1 support for Master Data Management. DB2 v11.5.7.* EOS is April 2027.
22 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Store and Retrieve Passwords in Credential Manager

Request: Enable PowerShell scripts and Python executables (e.g., .exe created via pyinstaller) to securely access the Windows Credential Manager — or its Linux equivalent — within the Planning Analytics on Cloud (PAoC) environment. Purpose: Thi...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted