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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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JDBC/ODBC Interface for BI Tools and integration with 3rd party software

Many customers use BI tools like Power BI, Tableau etc. They ask for JDBC/ODBC interface so they could access data products and data asset's defined in our data intelligence platform using tools of their choice. I've got statements from several cu...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics (CA) with Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance with QRADAR

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Cognos Analytics is fragmented. ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Share this report via email to me / Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>

I'm using Agentic IA from the Assistant panel. I don't use anonymous access on my server so my server knows who I am. I would like to use "Share this report via email to me" or "Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>". I...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Add Metadata Enrichment (MDE) to watsonx.ai

Working with ML/AI models requires an understanding of the data. The simple profiling in Watson Studio Data Refinery is not adequate. The enhanced metadata in MDE enables more informed decisions about require data preparation. For example, in MDE ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.ai Submitted

Please add ability to use AVI/F5 URLs/Hostname in ego.conf file as EGO_MASTER_LIST or SMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL

Please add ability to use AVI/F5 URLs/Hostname in ego.conf file as EGO_MASTER_LIST or SMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL We want to implenet this for our new data center deployments For example: SMC_GLOBAL_PLACEMENT=enabledSMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL=master_list:/...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Submitted

Allow Configuration of Python Version for Hosting Native Tools

Currently, IBM Watsonx Orchestrate does not provide a way to select or configure the Python version used to host native tools. This limitation can lead to compatibility issues when tools depend on specific Python versions or libraries. I propose a...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Audit logging

To maintain robust auditing and compliance on mainframe systems, it is critical to track both the real user identity and the agent identity when actions are performed. An audit log needs to capture: The actual user ID initiating the workflow. ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads. Can we add a flag to slow the number of concurrent image uploads to ensure we don't exceed...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Under review

Observability: Add Metrics and Statistics Generation for enhanced watsonx Orchestrate Platform Management

To support large-scale deployments of multi-agent systems, watsonx Orchestrate needs built-in instrumentation for monitoring and reporting resource usage. Currently, there is no mechanism to capture detailed operational metrics from agents.I propo...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review