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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).


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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:


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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,


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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,

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  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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Thread alerts - Planning Analytics as a Service - Administration

Hello, Right now in Planning Analytics as a Service, when configuring alerts in the "Alerts" tab of Administration / Databases from Planning Analytics Workspace, we have the following alerts : Ressources consumption alerts Database status alerts H...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add Explicit "No Results Found" or "End of Matches" Message in PAW Rules/Process Editor Find Dialog

Dear team, Idea Summary / Business Case: When using Ctrl+F in the Rules Editor or TI Process Editor in PAW, if a search term yields no matches (or after cycling through all matches), no feedback is given. Users see only silent behavior (no highlig...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Is a defect

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)...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features Under review

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combination

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combinations up to and including the period chosen. It would be good if the user was presented with a message deta...
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history without needing to open the data rule and not even having read access to project. Already at the moment one can view on governance rule side definition and binding of the Data quality r...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) Future consideration

Access Transaction Log via Right-click menu

Would let users quickly and easily check the transition history for a cell without going into (or needing access) to a Workbench, and then having to set up the correct query.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
6 months ago in Connectivity Submitted