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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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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.

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Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
10 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Under review

Add “Includes any of the selected users/area” filtering option

When applying filters, it would be highly beneficial to also have an option like “includes any of the selected users/area.” This enhancement would provide more flexibility in filtering, for ex for fields such as Action Owner. Ideally, this option ...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Read-only for opening balances in data entry

It should be possible to lock opening balances for data entry in web. This idea is related to this idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-217 - please reconsider This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
30 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Expand description field for Import of journals in Controller Web

Import journals in Web allows only 65 characters in description => please extend to number of digits available in Journal Entry (Controller Classic+Web) so that imported descriptions do not get cut-off. This idea was raised out of the IBM Contr...
30 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release