Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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



ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 18435 of 18435

Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Submitted

Questionnaire Lifecycle configuration along with Additional Custom Stages.

We have several customer requirement to use custom Questionnaire Lifecycle Stages other than OOB 2-stage, 3-stage, 4-Stage. Client Details - Union Bank of Philippines (UBP) – Details are already there in Dev Collab - https://github.ibm.co...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 5 Not under consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

BSI certification requirement: Secure Session Management

As part of the “BSI IT Grundschutz” certification for watsonx on Software Hub, following product enhancement needs to be fulfilled in a future release. Feedback from Mehboob Alam was incorporated. Building block CON 10 Development of Web Applicati...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

DB2DIAG.log presence on all clients

DB2DIAG.LOG has a great value, when trouble shooting applications and certificates. Often as DBA we dont have acces to the clients servers etc. So having the users retrieve a copy of the db2diag.log and send it, is very helpfull. Our endusers uses...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

was a load of idaa table from DB2 z/os or from copyTable

When loading a table in IDAA v8, you can use copytable instead of a DB2load-table and save some cpu. (and get identical data) When you load the same table on 2 accelerators. you want to load thet table on acclerator 1 from DB2 and then copytable t...
5 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release