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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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  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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Support for IBCS Reporting Standards

Most of the reporting standards of IBCS (Hichert) are currently not supported. Examples: Data Labels on charts / Legend within the chart Fixed colors for scenarios in charts / meaningful color selection Chart Types (Waterfall) etc.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix Developer Edition MAC OS port for Apple Chipset M1/2

The current and future Informix Development Edition and the Advanced Development Edition should be available under Mac OS apple cpu. The MacBook's are very popular among pupils, students, and IT consultants. Run Informix Server at actual MacBook's...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

"No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration

Upon drag and drop a data item, data starts to load and sometimes causes performance issues and errors due to high volume of data. We need a "No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration just like Query Studio. For Query Studio, we have a paramet...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Logs filtering for different job categories

Elevate Credit requested a feature to filter sdc logs data and identify different jobs categories such as financial jobs for auditing purposes.
8 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Database configuration presentation options

Currently the Configuration screen of a database follows a model when after clicking on one of the 4 main groupings (Administration, Modelling, Performance and Access) the admin has to select a configuration option. Even with this type of prefilte...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Chore list split by scheduled/ non scheduled

Currently the chore list is arranged alphabetically. I would propose to add an option to split it in 2 sub-lists (similar to Public/Private viewing option of sets). One sub-list for scheduled chores, the other for non-scheduled. The clock/snore ic...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists