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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:


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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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Thread alerts - Planning Analytics as a Service - Administration

Hello, Right now in Planning Analytics as a Service, when configuring alerts in the "Alerts" tab of Administration / Databases from Planning Analytics Workspace, we have the following alerts : Ressources consumption alerts Database status alerts H...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Is a defect

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combination

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combinations up to and including the period chosen. It would be good if the user was presented with a message deta...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data Rolling Openshift Updates

We want to be able to run rolling openshift updates below the Cloud Pak for Data Platform without downtime. We have a prod cluster with 3 nodes on three machines, so the platform should be 24x7 available. Our working hours are 8:00 to 16:00, but t...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) Future consideration

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

Add native background image / watermark support for Books and Pages (transparent logo as subtle background)

Dear team, Currently, Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books only allow a solid background color (via Book Properties → Background color). There is no built-in option to set a background image (e.g., a semi-transparent PNG logo) that acts as a t...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Make the Filter Pane in PAW Dashboards Collapsible / Hideable (Toggle + State Persistence)

In IBM Planning Analytics Workspace dashboards, the filter pane (global and tab filters) is always visible and occupies a significant portion of the available screen space. This reduces the usable area for charts, tables, and other analytical cont...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
6 months ago in Connectivity Submitted