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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:


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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,

  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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Multi Parameter conditional formatting

Adding the ability to create multi parameter "and" statements within PAW conditional formatting would enable more unified & visually appealing representation of cube views; allowing you to focus in on specific areas of the P&L without repe...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Multi select dropdown prompts

Hi Team, We woud love to have the multi-select value prompts as a drop down along with list or check box.I could see this functionality when I run the reports on IPAD but in desktop the reports aren't pretty with a list box.We have over 10 prompts...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Define and display tags hierarchically

Problem statement/pain point: In now Tags can be defined only non-hierarchy style.In our usecase, administrator design tags system in the enterprise such as in below.This tags system have hierarchical contents. AI_type-Question and answer, AI_ty...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Date Prompt in Dashboards (Slider or Date Box)

Currently we don't have this capability on Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BPM designer should not use dropdowns for critical settings

When hovering over a dropdown, eclipse lets you update it with scrollwheel and doesn't force you to click it first. Unless the dropdown update behavior can be prevented when not clicked, these critical settings should use other UI modules, like ra...
3 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors

I have an exciting new idea, sparked by the actions that followed the remarkable success we achieved using IBM Orchestrate. Develop a Library of Pre-Built Enterprise Connectors The Idea: Offer a marketplace of no-code/low-code "actions" or "skills...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder

IBM may introduce a Low-Code Visual Workflow Builder The Idea: Add a drag-and-drop interface for designing and visualizing complex, multi-step agent workflows, including conditional logic (if/then/else) and approval gates. Why It Matters: Currentl...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates-IBM Orchestrate

Create Industry-Specific Solution Templates The Idea: Develop pre-built, customizable agent templates for major verticals like Finance (SOX Compliance), HR (Employee Onboarding), Legal (Contract Review), and Healthcare (Policy Adherence). Why It M...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists