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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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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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Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Future consideration

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

PII detection for labeling or automated scrubbing

Identifying Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in field text is vital for compliance and security purposes to have some call out around PII, or automated scrubbing. We have setup our own PII guardrail as an LLM call to pick up some specific...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Future consideration

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Backup in V12 - allow to exclude files/folders

In Planning Analytics V12, when an administrator requests a backup, it includes all server files, as well as the contents of File Space (which can be browsed using File Explorer).However, this area can contain many files that are not required to b...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration