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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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File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered
170 VOTE

Conditional Formatting on Dashboard Visualizations

Using Dashboards in Cognos Analytics, enable the capability to apply conditional formatting to dashboard visualizations (charts, summaries, and other visualizations, not just grids).
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered

Support for Eclipse IDZ in addition to VS Code

100s of developers in my client MetLife using eclipse based IDe
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Delivered
141 VOTE

Cognos Analytics Home Page should accept User Favorite Reports and not only Recent Reports

Have the ability to switch between Recent Report and Users Favorite Reports on Cognos Analytics Home Page Portal
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Agent context variables enabled by default

Client would like to request a feature enhancement for agent context variables to be enabled by default vs having to use the ADK. This should be out of the box functionality, especially for users managing the agent that do not need the ADK to do a...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered
151 VOTE

Enable numbers to be displayed on graphs (bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column)

Currently numbers are only displayed on bubble charts or slices on the pie chart. This functionality should be extended to add numbers to bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column charts This enhancement needs the option to abbreviate t...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered
144 VOTE

More than one Data Module to be included in one report

Can't use more than one Data Module in a report
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered