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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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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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Support XLSX file for TEXT&DOC EXTRACTION NODES

[Request] I would like to request wxO to support XLSX files for both FILE UPLOAD, and TEXT AND DOCUMENT EXTRACTION NODE. Currently, wxO onlly allow us to upload XLSX files via FILE UPLOAD NODE, however, the content is recognized as binary file as ...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

CICDE To Support the ability to Redeploy a Previously Deployed Release

Today if you try to redeploy a release that has already been deployed to a deployment environment the deployment fails - even if that release had been backed off with a recover. A release is deployed to a test environment too early, for example, a...
5 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Submitted

Support simultaneous TM1 login across multiple separate Excel instances in PAfE

Currently, IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) does not officially support maintaining TM1 login sessions across multiple separate Excel instances/processes simultaneously. Historically, users were able to work across multiple separate Excel i...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Dify integration with end-to-end traceability

watsonx Orchestrate platform provide distinct value-added capabilities over widely-used open-source tools like Dify and LangFlow : High-Efficiency Management & Security: Deliver robust, enterprise-scale administration and security guardrails. ...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
29 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Add “Includes any of the selected users/area” filtering option

When applying filters, it would be highly beneficial to also have an option like “includes any of the selected users/area.” This enhancement would provide more flexibility in filtering, for ex for fields such as Action Owner. Ideally, this option ...
22 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
10 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Under review

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted