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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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Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance (CA, TM1, PAW)

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Analytics stack (Cognos Analytic...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Visual indicator for Picklist cells in PAW Cube Viewer / Exploration (like the dropdown arrow in Arc)

Dear team, Current Situation / Problem In Arc (Architect), when a cell has a picklist defined (via element attribute, picklist cube or rules), there is a clear visual indicator directly in the cube grid — usually a small dropdown arrow (▼) inside ...
17 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

In V12, add (restore) the capability to manage transaction logging at cube level.

Context V12 relies on transaction logs, a feature that is equivalent to that implemented in V11, through a Mongo DB. This feature notably allows data to be shared between replicas. While the transaction log is essential and justified for instance ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add a few functionality back to report connecting with data modules (example page layers and contextfilter)

A few functionalities where really helpful when using packages/cubes. Please add the folowing functionalities back to reporting where the data source is a data module. Add page layers and contextfilter functionality Add menu options to the sou...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted
437 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Not under consideration

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...

watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Adding Financial function Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to TM1 Rules

Adding an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) feature to IBM Planning Analytics TM1 Rules will significantly enhance its value for financial analysis and decision-making. IRR is a crucial metric for evaluating the profitability of investments and projec...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review