Skip to Main Content
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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 1033

ELIGIBLE WITH FAILBACK

If customers need FAILBACK capability back to Db2 in case SQL has an issue in accelerator, they currently use ENABLE WITH FAILBACK option. However, the routing criteria of ENABLE option includes cost factors calculated by optimizer. Customers want...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP4

Background Currently Truist is on SAP BO 4.3 SP4. Per Manta documentation and IBM support, this is not supported. Why is it useful? This is need for National Review exam (tentative July EOM) to show case the data lineage with upstream and downstre...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Planned for future release

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release