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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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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.

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HeadMap in Dashboard panels

In the task views it is possible to select heatmap as chart type, but creating a panel in the dashboard, heatmap type is not avalilable... while is a very common chart for risk reporting , it's could be very impresive to see ite directly on dashbo...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove / manage environments toward specific roles in a watsonx.ai project

Recently we had a team that utilized GPU runtimes for their notebook runs mistakenly, and this used a great deal of CUH. Looking through the options to build approval processes for expensive runtime environments, there doesn't look to be an abilit...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Allow to change the background of the header to red color to attract users attention to the alerts like migrations or updates on the OpenPages

Users request to change the background of the header to red color to attract their attention to the alerts like migrations or updates on the OpenPages.Now we can only change the text of the header in the application texts, but for users it's not e...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visualization: Able to assign colors to Attibutes

Being that the new Dashboard in V11 is interactive. Clicking on a specific area of a visualization act as a filter to the other visualizations within the dashboard. And you color palettes are sorted by the metric value. So when you pick a value (a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Filter item + displayitem from Framework Model in Report Studio - CUG2026

The options in Frameworkmanager Use filter item and Use Display Item for QueryItems is not respected by ReportStudio. RS always filters on the Queryitem itself. This causes "no data found" issue, when users change language as filtered item is lang...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide partition load for multiple partitions

GGDB212007 Provide a parameter for a partition range and/or partition listing like reorg utility does, e.g. -> PART (18:20, 22, 25)
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

allow bresize request on job using affinity string.

due to AMD Zen arch processor, we plan to use affinity string for all jobs to force job processes to run into the smallest number of ccd, to improve performance. but bresize increase command refuse to work when an affinity string is present in the...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration