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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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Request for a new Count authority in Db2

Normally a lot of organisations have production and customer data not visible to the DBA authority without some kind of enhanced access. For quite a few implementations and production support tasks DBAs or even application support staff are only p...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Deactivation of ownership based authorization checking

Currently during the authorization check in DB2 there is a mixture of possible rules giving access to operation/resource one of which is the ownership check. In principle, this is a disturbing part of authorization check from the security administ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Allow Selection of Individual Objects When Creating a Data Module Based on an Existing Data Module

When creating a new data module based on an existing data module, Cognos Analytics currently loads the entire source data module by default. In our environment, we have very large data modules with more than 500 query subjects. As a result, the in...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

Display minor version on the About page

At present the About page on the Software Hub UI only shows major versions for example 5.3 instead of 5.3.x . Business users cannot validate the version number
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Embedded IBM WalkMe Solutions

As part of our current setup, the IBM-provided WalkMe implementations are already embedded and visible within the platform. However, when we update the WalkMe snippet from our settings to enable our own WalkMe content, the IBM-provided WalkMe impl...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other Submitted

Please create and publish a Flow scripting API so that it can be accessed from outside the IBM Cloud.

The customer wants to create Modeler Flow streams using natural language through IBM Bob. They are also looking to automatically integrate IBM Bob with Modeler Flow’s Flow scripting. However, since there are currently no publicly available APIs fo...
2 days ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio Submitted

Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Redshift Connector – Consistent Handling of Unused Source Columns

Scenarios where source and target schemas do not exactly match. In such cases, connectors should provide flexible handling of unused or extra columns to avoid unnecessary job failures and improve usability. Currently, the behavior of the Redshift ...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Interoperable user memory across Orchestrate and other AI agent platforms

Watsonx Orchestrate user memory should interoperate with memory stores used by other AI agents and platforms. Problem 1 : Missing relevant memories . Users may interact with an agent through Watsonx Orchestrate, and also through other interfaces w...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

GUI and ISPF not able to share application profiles

In the Recovery Expert - ISPF or non GUI created application profiles are not visible via GUI and vice versa. It seems a bit limiting in that the whole end to end process needs to sit within the same interface. It would be nice to have our applica...
4 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS Under review