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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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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Allow security menu group rights to be imported

Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
1 day ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Enable automatic saving of comments in the questionnaire

Enable automatic saving or submission of comments in the questionnaire when the Enter key is pressed. Alternatively, provide a warning if a comment is unsaved before taking further action. Additionally, consider placing the blue action button dire...
4 days ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

PAW - stop column resize upon selector change

In PAW workbooks, for cube views - when a selector is updated the column width changes. Enhancement: to be able to freeze the automatic resizing on column width. For example below - the 'comment' column is sized correctly with Aug month is selecte...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Code Explain should support macros

Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Comments added with a REST API call

We would like to automate as many functionalities we can, but so far we've not found a way to add a comment. In the Activity log (e.g. for a business term) in the UI there's an opportunity for user to write a comment - but how to do it with REST API?
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

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