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



Status Submitted
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2025

Ability to hide PAW reports while users still having access through Plan

In our Contributor application, once a budget was submitted our users were unable to make edits to the data. This allowed us to rest easy that no further edits were made to the data after a plan was submitted and approved. In Planning Analytics Workspace Plans, users can submit their plan but they are still able to get to the underlying reports and perform data entry there. It would be nice to have the ability to hide the underlying reports from users views, but the Plan requires users have access to the report in order to include them. 

Cognos Analytics has the option to make an object hidden or also set the permission on the object to "Execute/Traverse" while not being readable by the users. Either of those options would be beneficial in Planning Analytics.

Needed By Month