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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    Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

    Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

    When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
    16 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

    Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

    Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

    Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

    Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

    CAds 9 After installation, no access to the web portal /peb

    We are experiencing a problem with a CADS 9 installation in a customer's production environment. After successful installation and deployment in the database repository, when we open the web portal /peb in the browser, the tool displays the error ...
    3 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

    Support column-level lineage export to Alation for filesystems

    This request builds upon https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-40 which added support for expeorting lineage for filesystems to Alation. The above feature could not export column-level lineage because Alation did not have an API to import column-l...
    3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Need an updated Pytorch ONNX runtime

    The pytorch-onnx_rt24.1 runtime contains an outdated ONNX operator schema validator that rejects a valid ReduceMean operator produced by current PyTorch ONNX export. This runtime is deprecated and no longer suitable for modern computer-vision models.
    4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

    read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

    Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
    9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

    Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

    Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
    9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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