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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    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

    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...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

    Improvement to eliminate or manage the "Transparent Button" overlay issue in TM1 Web/PAW

    In some TM1 Web/Planning Analytics Workspace screens, we frequently encounter a UI element labeled as "Transparent Button" overlapping other functional buttons or components. This ghost element seems to serve no clear purpose, and even when delete...
    5 months ago in Planning Analytics 5 Is a defect

    Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

    Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
    29 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

    Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

    A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
    29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Add time option for expensive trace

    I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    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

    PAW Application Assets Refresh When Opened

    In a PAW Application with at least 2 assets, I can open an asset and it gets the latest data the first time; however, if I go to another asset and amend something that affects data in the first asset, and then go back to the first asset then it re...
    5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    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

    Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

    Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
    10 days ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

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