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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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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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Allow users to choose between "loose" and "tight" display of attributes for rules/terms/categories

Feedback from our pilot group of users is that compared to IGC the screen shows a lot less information at a glance, meaning people have to scroll more. They would prefer a more concise look and feel. When they work on laptops only, I can understan...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Ability to configure default tabs

As an Admin, I want to be able to configure the order of All the tabs in the landing page.
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Add Option to Only Show Selected Databases in the Database Tree

As a developer working daily with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), I often deal with a large number of database instances — over 50 in our enterprise environment. However, for my daily tasks, I only need access to two specific instances. Cu...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Option to change export of the data to a new excel book from Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

I am currently on 2.1.6.3 version of Planning Analytics for Excel. Currently we can only export the data from the PAfE to the existing excel book in a new tab, but it doesn't create a new excel book, unlike it was doing earlier in the Perspectives...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Have Db2 for z/OS issue a message at Db2 subsystem restart if a DSNZPARM or DSNHDECP member has been changed.

Configuration management is a major focus of our auditors and compliance officers. We have to be able to show that we have a standard build and that any changes from the standard configuration would be closely governed via change control. The focu...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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.
almost 8 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

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration