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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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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


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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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Deployment of Individual Data Modules

Problem: You cannot select Datamodules individually for exporting/deployment. The only option is to select a folder. This creates problems if you have a central Packages/Data module location for you business users. You cannot deploy a single or mu...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow number fields to be added to header

Allow number fields to be added to header.Critical information such as the Potential Loss amount should be displayed on the Header.
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Please add the schedule owner back to the interface

In Cognos Analytics, in the entry properties, we can see the entry owner, but in the Schedule details we cannot identify the owner of the schedule, which could be someone entirely different than the entry owner. Please add the schedule owner back ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting SMF101 with reporting class

The absence of report class in DB2 SMF record 101 is cumbersome for capacity management. Report Class is used for workload reporting and accounting. To match SMF 72 (values by report class) with SMF 101 (values by thread, i.e. for userid and other...
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for use of the PAW Everyone group in database security

The other PAW security groups are available for use in the TM1 database security, but the PAW Everyone group is not currently available as an option. This requires us to create our own Everyone database security group and manually assign users to ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to configure AWS VPCs, Subnets, and Security Groups

Enable configurable outbound connectivity in WxO by allowing customers to define and manage their own AWS VPCs, Subnets, and Security Groups, ensuring alignment with internal security policies and restricting unauthorized public internet access.
5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Hiding System Default View

System Default View cannot be disabled or hidden and this IDEA is to introduce possibility to hide or to disable System Default View. System Default View do not correspond to what user has to see and therefore is not convenient and enable users to...
5 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Content Server or Data Source? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports. Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 support.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Planned for future release

Flexibility with the Criticality Feature

We request additional flexibility with the criticality score. We would like a default to be able to be "No Criticality" or a Null option. We would request that we are able to add additional fields and relabel the current fields.
5 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted