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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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Enable additional user data points to be captured via the Agent Builder web chat

Within watsonx Assistant and Orchestrate's Assistant Builder web chat, the ability to capture the following 6 data points are available to capture about the end user: Timezone Language User ID Browser Info IP Address OS I see tha...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable user to switch between secure/unsecure experience of the same embedded web chat

This request is to enable a user to switch back and forth between the secured and unsecured embedded web chat experience. Essentially, this would enable the user to utilize the web chat in an anonymous manner at first, and then they could have the...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add parameter to chat that keeps track of how many seconds the conversation has lasted

This exists in the Assistant Builder embedded web chat where an event with the type of SessionExpired is triggered and we can listen for this as part of our session timeout flow. In the documentation (URL #1 & URL #2 & URL #3), I was unabl...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Integration with SAS Solution

SAS is a software platform that can be used as a data source to feed data to watsonx.data. Typically connections are made to SAS using JDBC. The request here is to either create a native connector to SAS or a generic connector that allows to use J...
4 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Job IDLE Detection (JOB_IDLE in lsb.queues) need "differential" idle detection

Sometimes we see interactive jobs that after some computation time (e.g. of several hours)the computation is finished and they (might) wait for a user interaction. So the job essentiallydoes nothing but keeping the LSF job running and resources al...
4 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Under review

A drop column should put an object in impaired status on IDAA

After a DROP COLUMN operation against a Db2 for z/OS table which is defined as an accelerator shadow table, and a subsequent online REORG to materialize the change, the table is not reported as "unimpaired" but a subsequent load operation fails wi...
4 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Submitted

Allow CTEs in EXPLAIN FOR

Currently explain-statements with common table expressions likeEXPLAIN PLAN FOR ( WITH ONE AS (SELECT IBMREQD FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1) SELECT * FROM ONE);fail with message SQL0199N because the WITH is not supported.So EXPLAINing statements with CTEs...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 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.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
17 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Future consideration