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 18486

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add compatibility with the latest version of React to Custom Visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. The latest version of React includes server side ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

MDI Lineage Job fails without proper Error message in logs

While Running the MDI lineage process, the job fails without providing a clear or detailed error message in the logs. it simply shows a status of failed with no context or explanation. We need the job logs to help with troubleshooting and root cau...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Problem while using custom cards API

Hi team, I am raising this case on behalf of customer. We discussed with Zen services and provided below but customer requirement is different from default features Provided solution: Those api routes are only used for the homepage and do not have...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

When DB2 writes a message to the DB2 Log, DB2 could also optionally write the contents of the message to a new IBM Catalog Table SYSIBM.DB2_Messages or a user defined table.

WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA Many of our DB2 subsystems and members remain active for several months or more. Searching for a DB2 Message can take a long time in SDSF when analysing and diagnosing problems. Having all of the DB2 Messages in a Table mak...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

DataStage Flows View in IKC project need to control based on User Role and Project purpose

Please note this is an extension of previous idea - CPDIDEAS-I-2331 ( IBM Ideas) Need IKC Project User View (or access) restrictions based on DataQuality, DataStage and Metadata harvesting purpose. Proposing 3 kinds of Project Views - IKC project ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Improve usability of CodeBlock creation in GUI Tool flow

When writing a CodeBlock in the Tool flow through the GUI, it is difficult to know the correct syntax. For example, a declaration such as @tool(name="") is required, but this is not obvious to users. It would be very helpful to display sample code...
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information