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


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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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    Open Comments field on PAW Book Properties

    Allow admins to capture developer related details on a PAW book that would help with support
    1 day 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...
    3 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    An auto fit feature that will dynamically change the row/column size based on the text that is in a given cell.

    We have a user that uses a comments cube. The like to have bullet points (Below) Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3 Idea 4 But when he opens the cube view, it doesn't automatically show every bullet point, it will be cut off and only show the first 2 ...
    2 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    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...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    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 ...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    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

    wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

    When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

    Code Explain should support macros

    Many customers use macros to generate COBOL to simplify the way that they wrote code, especially for standard processes. When developers select their code in the IDE to generate an explanation, it won't always be standard COBOL thanks to these mac...
    6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

    Enable automatic saving of comments in the questionnaire

    Enable automatic saving or submission of comments in the questionnaire when the Enter key is pressed. Alternatively, provide a warning if a comment is unsaved before taking further action. Additionally, consider placing the blue action button dire...
    about 2 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

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