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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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.

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Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Auto-scale and redeploy model on hardware errors

When a hardware issue occurs — for example, a GPU ECC error — and it is detected at the application layer, the model should be automatically rescheduled and redeployed to a healthy node. This mechanism should ensure service continuity by isolating...
16 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Submitted

Enable additional user data points to be captured via the Agent Builder web chat

Within watsonx Assistant and Orchestrate's Assistant Builder web chat, the ability to capture the following 6 data points are available to capture about the end user: Timezone Language User ID Browser Info IP Address OS I see tha...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable user to switch between secure/unsecure experience of the same embedded web chat

This request is to enable a user to switch back and forth between the secured and unsecured embedded web chat experience. Essentially, this would enable the user to utilize the web chat in an anonymous manner at first, and then they could have the...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add parameter to chat that keeps track of how many seconds the conversation has lasted

This exists in the Assistant Builder embedded web chat where an event with the type of SessionExpired is triggered and we can listen for this as part of our session timeout flow. In the documentation (URL #1 & URL #2 & URL #3), I was unabl...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Integration with SAS Solution

SAS is a software platform that can be used as a data source to feed data to watsonx.data. Typically connections are made to SAS using JDBC. The request here is to either create a native connector to SAS or a generic connector that allows to use J...
3 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

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