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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:


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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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Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
4 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow tab names based on data when exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Demand

When exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Cloud Hosted we were able to have an admin switch turned on: Set RSVP.EXCEL.PAGEGROUP_WSNAME_ITEMVALUE to true This meant Excel exports could have meaningful tab names based on the data in the repor...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Planned for future release

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards

Amount(abbreviated data format) in KPI widgets unable show values in Indian Currency format in dashboards.e.g. billion to crore : Cognos dashboards are unable to show Amount fields(when abbreviated) in widgets in Indian currency formats. e.g. clie...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Data Quality Rule: Preview of records without output table

Current behaviour: In order to see a preview of all records / failing records / or passing records, I need to define always an output table.Only with this information IBM knows what to display (columns, variables, metrics, etc.).Without configurin...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Planned for future release

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Planned for future release

When restoring a Cloud Pak for Data online backup to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion, need to eliminate the requirement to manually delete the CP4D instance projects before the restore is con

This idea would be beneficial for CP4D customers who do not have a DR cluster environment and need to conduct backup/restore testing within the same cluster. CLients are risk averse to deleting the namespaces of their instances where the restore i...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release