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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Gestures when working with widgets in books should align with other applications

In applications like Excel, Powerpoint etc. if you are working with shapes, images etc. you can drag them around by clicking the object then dragging. Using various key combinations in addition to dragging allows you to get a range of outcomes: ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable Advanced Border Configuration (Style, Color, Thickness) for Row/Column Headers and Enhanced Borders for Data Cells in PAW Format Manager

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Format Manager allows basic formatting for data cells and headers, but border options are severely limited: Data cells: Borders exist only as simple on/off toggles (n...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Allow customization of displayed content in inline dimension selectors (Subsets / Levels / Elements)

Dear team, Idea Description: In PAW Explorations and Cube Views, the content shown in inline dimension selectors currently depends on the placement of the dimension and offers almost no configuration options: When the dimension is placed in the ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Debugger Window Width

Following a recent update, the width of the debugger pane has been reduced, making it significantly less convenient to use. The narrower layout makes it difficult to clearly view all fields and parameters at once and requires substantially more sc...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Implement OAUTH with mTLS

We want to implement an improvement in OAUTH authentication with the introduction of mTLS (multual TLS). New security requirements and implementations in communication with external APIs between different companies with open communication on the i...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Planned for future release

Inclusion of the Help Menu in the Security Groups

We need to implement security controls so that only users with elevated permissions are able to access Help > System Info. To support this requirement, we suggest including the Help menu within Security Groups, allowing access to be restricted ...
12 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

AgentOps for External Agents using OpenTelemetry in IBM watsonx Governance

Extend IBM watsonx Governance to support AgentOps (Agent Operations) for external and third‑party agents by leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTel) as a standardized observability and control layer. This enables IBM watsonx to monitor, govern, audit, and ...
12 days ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

Multiple Instance per account for Data Intelligence (watsonx.data (SAAS))

IBM Cloud currently restricts Data Intelligence / watsonx.data SaaS to a single instance per account (in specific plans), and enterprises commonly work around this by creating multiple IBM Cloud accounts, which introduces governance and operationa...
12 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence Under review

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