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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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,

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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.

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    User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

    We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
    27 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    The default role of a new PAW user should be configurable

    In PAW a new user is created automatically, when he logs in for the first time by approproate settings. In this case the new user is always defined as "Analyst" by default. I have a customer, who wants to have new users created as "Consumer". Up t...
    27 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    A Github integration ensures enterprise-grade governance, automation, and agility for data engineering workflows. By leveraging GitHub and LevelUp tooling, clients gain robust version control, rollback capabilities, and automated testing/deployment for pipelines and DAGs. It reduces operational risk, accelerates delivery, and aligns with modern DevOps practices.

    Large enterprise clients like AT&T, who manage complex data pipelines across hybrid environments, will benefit from streamlined CI/CD processes, improved security, and consistent governance across services. How should it work? GitHub Integra...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx.data integration / watsonx.data integration - Bulk/Batch and ETL/ELT capability 0 Submitted

    Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

    The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

    We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 Future consideration

    VSCode interface for ADDI

    VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration
    111 VOTE

    NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

    Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 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...
    3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

    There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

    There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
    249 VOTE

    Rerun schedule

    Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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