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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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Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Governing image-based prompts in watsonx.governance

It would be highly valuable if watsonx.governance could support use cases by allowing images to be seamlessly integrated into prompt templates and deployments, in the same way text is currently handled. This capability would enable organizations t...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Random Key/Number Regenerates on Each Report Refresh

Hi team, We have observed that a random key or number is being generated each time the report is refreshed. This is causing confusion among users while using the application. This behavior is not expected, as the system should retain consistent va...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

AVRO messages should have an AVRO response for consistency with the rest of formats.

All the response formats to incoming messages in MCI,KMI, etc. are in the same as the input, so xml will be responded as xml, json will respond json, and so on except AVRO. For AVRO incoming messages the response provided by Safer Payments is XML ...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Fallback to Db2 when IDAA replication is lagging

When Db2 detects that IDAA replication is lagging under the integrated synchronization process, the query waits for replication to catch up before being served from the accelerator. We need an option controlled by a package parm or zparm that will...
5 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable the use of MDX templates for dynamic subsets

Objective: To prevent the proliferation of redundant copies of similar books, we require the ability to define dynamic, parameterizable subsets within selector widgets. This functionality should reflect the flexibility and reusability of MDX templ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Consistency of the Legend in the different views when on the same indicator

In a same book, or even in a same view, it would be really helpful having always the same color used for the same indicator ; and not changing on each graph. Color of the legend should be consistent when refering to the same indicator. Indeed, tod...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Timestamps in Logs / Live Log Stamping should be consistent format and flexibility to change to CST timings and Date sorting option

From PAW workbench, all log outputs include accurate timestamps should be consistent format and flexibility to change to CST timings and Date sorting option. At present In PAW workbench, all log outputs showing in GMT format, where is in PA local ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add Explicit LDAP Domain Selection UI

Summary Introduce a dedicated UI control—either a drop‑down list or an editable text box—that requires users to explicitly select or enter the LDAP domain when authenticating. The supported domains are: USWIN VDSI ADEBP The chosen domain must be p...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted