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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,

  1. Post an idea

  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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Visual indicator for Picklist cells in PAW Cube Viewer / Exploration (like the dropdown arrow in Arc)

Dear team, Current Situation / Problem In Arc (Architect), when a cell has a picklist defined (via element attribute, picklist cube or rules), there is a clear visual indicator directly in the cube grid — usually a small dropdown arrow (▼) inside ...
24 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Number of items in recent list

The recent tab shows the recently opened or executed reports which is limited to 20. Need the option to change this number in the User Profile and Settings. As a Developer it will help to see a bigger list since we open more reports than the end u...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Total Latch count

Add a derived counter in Enhanced 3270UI workspace KDPLOK2 (attribute group KDP.STATLOKC) that is a sum of all the latches reported. The Total Latch counts can be an indicator of performance problems/degradations in Db2 z/OS.
24 days ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS Future consideration

Filter by date to view reports from the DVM catalog

To generate the volume reports requested by the GISS management (number of objects created—Virtual Tables, Virtual Views, etc.—within each schema in each production LPAR), we need to obtain the table name, table owner, and table creation date for ...
24 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS Under review

Sorting Stack Bar Chart X-axis on Measure Value In Dashboard

This would allow the x-axis value of a stacked bar chart (and others) to be sorted on a measure value that is a part of the data module or a calculation that does not appear in the visualization. In the attached screen shot, there are 3 length mea...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Support Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse

We have a customer, Octopus, where Azure Synapse is currently a primary destination for StreamSets pipelines. They are now looking at a move toward Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse. At present, it is unclear whether Fabric DW can be supported via t...
24 days ago in StreamSets Needs more information

Use the agent name field instead of display_name for collaborator tool name generation in multi-agent configurations

Background / Current Behavior In watsonx Orchestrate, a multi-agent configuration consists of one router (parent) agent associated with multiple specialist (child) agents as collaborators. We interpret that the router internally registers each col...
25 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Support Informix for Ubuntu 24.04

Useful for using Informix in Ubuntu 24 and higher.
25 days ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

Enhance Safer Payments to support multiple Message Command Interface (MCI) endpoints, with each endpoint having its own dedicated tab in the SP dashboard instead of being grouped under a single MCI view.

Problem Today All MCI endpoints are grouped under a single “MCI” section Hard to distinguish between different endpoints (e.g., environments, regions, partners) Monitoring and troubleshooting become less intuitive Limited visibility into endpoint-...
25 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Submitted