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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Update Satellite Connector to dynamic ports and rotating credentials

Technical Problem Connectivity Challenge: Client needs to connect to their on-premises Oracle RAC database using IBM Satellite connector, but it's not secure in its current configuration Dynamic vs. Static Ports: Client's security requirements...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

For Korean language to be available and supported by the features of the product

Supporting the Korean language in this product would be highly beneficial for Korean-speaking users, as it would provide a more accessible and personalized experience. It would enhance user engagement, allowing them to navigate the product more ea...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

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 ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Under review

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

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
539 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

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

API subscribe to Audit, message, PAW and server logs

Currently PAaaS provides API to subscribe to transactions log. However, it does not provide similar capability to the following other logs: Audit Logs Message logs PAW logs Server Logs Providing these logs to customers via API or other w...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Azure VM deployments to be compatible with VM sizes

Currently, VM sizes like Standard_E8as_v6 cause an Azure VM Data Collector deployment to fail with the following error: The Virtual Machine Scale Set with VM Size 'Standard_E8as_v6' cannot boot with OS image or disk. Please check that disk control...
6 days ago in StreamSets Submitted