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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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Remove "All Workbooks" from Snapshot dropdown (maybe add snapshot selection?)

In IBM Planning Analytics for Excel, under Snapshot, it offers: Sheet, Workbook, All Workbooks. Multiple users in my company have mentioned that it is scary to see that "All Workbooks" option - and the possible risk of unintentionally snapping unr...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source

Please make IBM CDC 11.4 support SQL Server 2025 as a Data Source Target and Source You support all other versions of SQL Server up to 2022 - SQL 2025 now released as of Dec 2025 - please can you add support for SQL Server 2025 to IBM CDC 11.4 As ...
16 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Combination chart with target

We would like a visualization that combines line visualization and target column/bar. This would be great to display status vs budget for each day or month while also displaying the running total.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Fix that adding a lookupstage removes sort information from a link

If you sort data on a link (or mark it as sorted with a sort stage and don't sort previously sorted), then this information is lost (the information that the data is sorted, not the sorting itself) if there is a lookupstage downstream (that does n...
16 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Global parameter to make PafE Read only except admin

User should be able to only read in PafE independent of the user rights specified in the TM1 database. Admin should be excepted and should continue to have all rights.
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Restriction can not be exported for Custom Relation and Custom Attribute

We have crated custom properties and custom relationship. There we added some restrictions. But when we are trying to export them, in JSON, via UI or API, We are able to see the restrictions we have added but only their corresponding Artifact IDs....
16 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

LSF installer binary hung during SILENT_INSTALL

when SILENT_INSTALL="Y", is set the installer gets hung on this step. we dont have any option to overwrite by default as a install.config parameter. Logs: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSF ...
16 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Under review

Drive Explorer - Folder Size Visibility & Performance Transparency

Problem statement / real-life scenario:When working with Drive Explorer in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), administrators and power users frequently need to review folder details to understand performance issues. In real production environment...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration