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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).


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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Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Functionality already exists

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Native Version Control Capabilities for AI Agents

Introduce native version control capabilities for AI agents in watsonx Orchestrate. This feature would allow users to create, tag, and manage multiple versions of the same agent—enabling safer deployments, rollback to previous versions, and tracea...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

IBM Storage Archive - add a data_full threshold parameter

At Library Archive Canada, we are producing 2 copies of LTO9 for our content. Using Scale and LTFS EE as a replication storage. We ideally need to eject copy2 out of a IBM TS4500 library to make them offline, air gaped and send them to a different...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Needs more information

A identity in the DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE that uniquely identifies a SQL statement

The hash columns, STMT_HASHID2 and QUERY_HASH, in DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE the STMT include prepare attributes, bind parms, package and so on, with the actual SQL statement. We would like to have a identity that is only based on the actual SQL s...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

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

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

Support Model Input View when using AI in Grid Add Action button

Enable **View definition** input type for "Set Relationship" models by: 1. Allowing the **Add** or **Associate** button to trigger models with view definition input 2. Passing the full view context (all fields including contextual related objects)...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features Planned for future release

Control (e.g. with a ZPARM) automatic log switch if the max. log span is reached

Today Db2 switches the log when the max log data set size is reached. The idea is to also let Db2 switch the log if a time interval has been reached (e.g. every 5 minutes). This is important in the context of cyber resiliency initiatives. To achie...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Add native background image / watermark support for Books and Pages (transparent logo as subtle background)

Dear team, Currently, Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books only allow a solid background color (via Book Properties → Background color). There is no built-in option to set a background image (e.g., a semi-transparent PNG logo) that acts as a t...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted