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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.

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Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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...
20 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 ...
21 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.
21 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...
21 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.
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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 ...
21 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Under review

Enhance PAW User Administration "Download Users into CSV File" to Include Capabilities

The Administration / Users and Groups --> Download users into a csv file, should be enhanced to include additional details such as capabilities assignments to enable validation of users access rights for a multi environment configuration as we ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve results when using Batch deploy mode for Machine Learning Models

After you create a machine learning model (using AutoAI, for example), you can choose to deploy it in online or batch mode. When someone runs the Batch deploy mode against a dataset (a CSV file, for example), the results usually show only the pred...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

ApplicationSecurity entries are lost when existing Websheets are replaced via PAfE

We control user access to applications/folders and individual web sheets in TM1Web via the system cube ApplicationSecurity (dimensions Groups & Applications). This defines which rights each user group has for which web sheets. It often happens...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted