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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Always‑Available OpenPages: Zero‑Downtime Configuration Deployments

Enterprise customers increasingly expect high availability and uninterrupted access to governance, risk, and compliance systems. Currently, OpenPages configuration deployments result in temporary system unavailability, impacting business users dur...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Future consideration

HPU Equivalent Parameter for DSNTIAUL TOLWARN(QUIET) option

Our developers were using DSNTIAUL UNLOAD JCL with these options RUN PROGRAM(DSNTIAUL) PARMS('SQL,TOLWARN(QUIET)') When they try to change their DSNTIAUL job to HPU 6.1 JCL, We saw that there is no TOLWARN(QUIET) option in HPU 6.1 https://www.ibm....
13 days ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS Functionality already exists

Calculate Data Quality rule success rates based on the filtered/evaluated row count instead of the total underlying table row count.

A customer stores production data in a single large table and applies Data Quality rules only to specific subsets of that data by using SQL WHERE clauses. Currently, the Data Quality rule success rate appears to be calculated against the total row...
16 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Database Cross Load for tables with XML-Columns (restriction SQL1407N)

Since XML columns were implemented in DB2 years ago, many customers want to transfer data from one database to another (e.g., when moving from an on-premises environment to the cloud). All data can be load via cross-load like this CALL ADMIN_CMD('...
21 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

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