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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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Multiple Enrichment jobs and versions per asset and merge term assignments in catalog

We need the ability for multiple teams to share a project for a shared asset. Some of the teams are assigning terms based upon security and privacy requirements. Others are assigning terms for global clearance, and other groups are assigning busin...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans - Assignment and Submission Improvements

The addition of Applications and Plans in the new PAW experience has been very helpful in making PAW more collaborative. However, there are some improvements needed to make it easier to use and be more useful: The default "Everyone" group that app...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support for DATETIME data type field in OpenPages

please introduce Date Time field in Open Pages in the future releases. Currently Open Pages has no DATETIME option available while creating a field to hold timestamp value. Business case -> To know how many templates are approved on time, let’s...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Future consideration

Automated Deployment of PAW Objects from NonProd to PROD

In an environment where DEV team must not have access to PROD, creating books and applications and setting permissions in DEV environment and pushing them to PROD is not possible in PAW. It will require a human to interact with the PAW UI to do st...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Leverage Reference Data Sets in DQ Rules

When reference data sets have been uploaded into / created in WKC allow them to be used in the DQ rules logic.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

For tables w/ columns that are generated by default, update the internal sequence with the next value for the column

When using Qrep for DR , we have to make the target table which has generated numeric values to be generated by default. That is understood. In a DR scenario, when we fail over from the A to the B side, we have to run a script that gets the max va...