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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


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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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253 VOTE

Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered
133 VOTE

Send Email notification

We should have a send email option available attached with the PA. No need to search any outside VB or JAVA script for the same. better to have a integrated send email option.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered
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Waterfall chart or Step Chart

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Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colors in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfal...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Unable to export a single page (in a multi-page report) in Excel/PDF in Cognos 11.0.7

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, in the multi-page report, the report author doesn't have the option to export a single page to pdf/excel. The report runs ONLY html. The "run Option (html/PDF/Excel etc.)" is unavailable. Please refer to attachment for ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Improve performance in queries with IN predicate

Hello! We had problems with CPU in Production environment several months ago with a simple query with IN predicate. The CPU reached 100%! Particularly, this query has many literals within IN predicate and the IN predicate can't be matching. After ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

PAW Action Button Process Search Capability

When using Action button in PAW to run a process there is no existing way to search for it. We have to scroll down and select it manually. It would be really helpful if we can get a feature to search the process. I'm attaching sample screenshot fo...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Attachment to journals in Controller Classic

Possible to attach a file in the journal text window when posting i journal in Controller Classic
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Ability to parse Gen AI output into a structured object

GenAI feature included in workflows is convenient for many use cases but by definition the generated output is always as text. for entity extraction task it would be useful to be able to parse GenAI outputs into a structured e.g JSON object in ord...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered