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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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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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Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Homepage Configuration by Role

We propose allowing the homepage to be configured based on user roles. This would let users see the most relevant information and cards immediately upon logging in, tailored to their responsibilities and needs.
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Show Validation Status and Date at Catalog Level

Currently, descriptions are being validated with functional teams at the Project level. We propose transferring these validations to the catalog level, so that users can see that a description has been validated and since when. This would provide ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Show Catalog Last Update Date at Top Level

Currently, when viewing catalogs, the date displayed at the top level corresponds to the creation date. We propose displaying the last update date instead. This would allow users to immediately see when the catalog was last modified, improving vis...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Db2Wh on Cloud: Request for improvement of view diagnostics in the web console

The Currently, Db2Wh on Cloud does not allow end users to check the diagnostic log. Please improve this so that the diagnostic log can be viewed in the web console.
4 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Bring back Paste button on right-click menu

After we upgrade PA from 2.0 to 2.1, the users notice that the Paste button on right-click menu is missing. Although the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut works, the business users prefer to use the Paste button on right-click menu since their left hand mi...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Grid View: ability to customize the default value for number of items per page

When opening a Grid view, ie loss events, the default page size is 50 records and it can be changed manually to 100, 250, 500. The client is asking to change the default value (50) to other values (100, 200, 250, 500) globally in the system settin...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration