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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Add parameter to chat that keeps track of how many seconds the conversation has lasted

This exists in the Assistant Builder embedded web chat where an event with the type of SessionExpired is triggered and we can listen for this as part of our session timeout flow. In the documentation (URL #1 & URL #2 & URL #3), I was unabl...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Integration with SAS Solution

SAS is a software platform that can be used as a data source to feed data to watsonx.data. Typically connections are made to SAS using JDBC. The request here is to either create a native connector to SAS or a generic connector that allows to use J...
3 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Job IDLE Detection (JOB_IDLE in lsb.queues) need "differential" idle detection

Sometimes we see interactive jobs that after some computation time (e.g. of several hours)the computation is finished and they (might) wait for a user interaction. So the job essentiallydoes nothing but keeping the LSF job running and resources al...
3 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Under review

A drop column should put an object in impaired status on IDAA

After a DROP COLUMN operation against a Db2 for z/OS table which is defined as an accelerator shadow table, and a subsequent online REORG to materialize the change, the table is not reported as "unimpaired" but a subsequent load operation fails wi...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Submitted

Allow CTEs in EXPLAIN FOR

Currently explain-statements with common table expressions likeEXPLAIN PLAN FOR ( WITH ONE AS (SELECT IBMREQD FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1) SELECT * FROM ONE);fail with message SQL0199N because the WITH is not supported.So EXPLAINing statements with CTEs...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Toggle to continue showing feedback in chat after user submits it

There is no toggle to allow additional feedback that a user has provided to continue showing in chat after the user submits it. Therefore, there's no way for a user to scroll back up in the chat to see the feedback that they had provided. This wou...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

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