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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.

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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In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Extension of the commentary functionality in Planning Analytics Workspace

We would like to request an enhancement of the current commentary functionality in Planning Analytics Workspace. At the moment, the comment feature is limited to a single free‑text box. This is not sufficient for our business requirements, because...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace: Display "Search Code" Results Directly in Left Pane

Current Situation: In Planning Analytics Workspace, when using Search Code, the results require opening each process or rule and clicking Next to locate the corresponding line. This makes it time-consuming to determine whether the result is releva...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhance Copy-Paste Functionality from Excel to TM1 Web/PAW to Transfer Full Underlying Decimal Values Regardless of Display Formatting

Dear team, When copying values from Excel (via PAfE) to TM1 Web/PAW, if decimals are hidden via formatting, only the visible integer is pasted (e.g., underlying 3.56 displays as 4 and pastes as 4). This loses precision, unlike Excel-to-Excel behav...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
almost 2 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Allow security menu group rights to be imported

Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
3 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Need official support for calling the LLM in Async mode when deploying AI Service

Client developed the AI service using python code. Async mode is used when calling the LLM for this AI service. Per IBM's comments in TS021152941, Async mode is not officially supported. This impact client productivity and project badly. Why this ...
20 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Open Comments field on PAW Book Properties

Allow admins to capture developer related details on a PAW book that would help with support
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted