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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


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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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New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enable namespace‑scoped image pull secrets for IBM Licensing

Our organization must avoid using cluster‑wide (global) image pull secrets and instead rely exclusively on namespace‑scoped image pull secrets, in line with our internal security policies. While most Cloud Pak for Data components now support this ...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enable MAXTRANSSIZE parm for Classic CDC for VSAM

When batch jobs perform a large number of updates to VSAM, it create 1 UOR that contains too many changes which made the capture cache may full. However, cache memory are shared by subscriptions. We cannot stop other subscriptions to free cache. F...
20 days ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture Future consideration

Setting Display Conditions by “Section” in Questionnaire Assessment

[Features Requiring Further Consideration]In Questionnaire Template, a feature to control the display of items by ‘section’ based on the values of the parent object (Use Case)We envision control similar to the “Specific Control Example” described ...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Future consideration

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Under review

Watsonx.ai on-prem monitoring of token & compute usage

At present, WatsonX.ai software does not support automated extraction of Large Language Model (LLM) usage metrics. Although token usage information is accessible, it is often buried within log files or only displayed in the prompt lab window. For ...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Future consideration

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Functionality already exists

Enable "disk alerts" for Planning Analytics as a Service - like in other PA solutions

We have customers running PAaaS, and have experienced issues with their databases crashing/stopping due to lack of disk space. In PAW - for some reason there is no way to determine why the databases crashes - and further more they can't be started...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted