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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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.

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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 ...
19 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
7 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Cobol Scanner should recover when * is found column 72 of COBOL code

In Truist there are Cobol code in Productions which are importing copybooks, and the same copybook is calling other copybooks. i.e. The flow looks like olila12p.cob ->DPBAUTW0.cpy->DPSINSCC.cpy Manta Cobol scanner fails in scenarios when the...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Configure cube viewer to repeat member names on each row and column

https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/WORKSPACE-16064 Currently stacked cube views in PAW merge element names across the header column. However when combined with specific column alignment, the cube view headers move away from the data set. For the attached ...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
14 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 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?
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

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