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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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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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Use of J type intercompany with period looping import specs in Controller Web

For Controller Web import specs with looping by period, there is no ability to define the start column for the transaction amount field. If customers use J type intercompany accounts for their actual imports, we would expect them to want to use th...
about 4 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support Data Modules for the Event Agent - CUG2026

With Cognos Analytics version 12.1.1 and higher, Data Modules have matured into a powerful and strategically central modeling layer. They enable fast, business-oriented, and low-maintenance modeling and are now the recommended foundation for repor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add full Korean language support to watsonx Orchestrate

Korean language support in watsonx Orchestrate is a business-critical requirement to unlock major enterprise opportunities in Korea.
18 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Submitted

Provide a property/flag to access the DB2 catalog directly or the current graph database

Since the graph database database needs to be refreshed at regular intervals, therefore will always be out of sync with the real world and create there a window to allow for incorout situation where DAF is not aware of new DB2 objects created via ...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

API Keys with restricted access permissions

We want to enable users to enact only certain functionalities, such as triggering a job run. Currently, the way we do that is to give them access to a username and zenApiKey as credentials to run the job through the api. However, tech-savvy users ...
about 7 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12 ANZ Bank is undertaking a strategic, enterprise-wide platform transformation in which all Oracle databases across the organisation are being migrated from So...
about 7 hours ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

A identity in the DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE that uniquely identifies a SQL statement

The hash columns, STMT_HASHID2 and QUERY_HASH, in DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE the STMT include prepare attributes, bind parms, package and so on, with the actual SQL statement. We would like to have a identity that is only based on the actual SQL s...
about 7 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Toggle to continue showing feedback in chat after user submits it

There is no toggle to allow additional feedback that a user has provided to continue showing in chat after the user submits it. Therefore, there's no way for a user to scroll back up in the chat to see the feedback that they had provided. This wou...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted