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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

IBM Storage Archive - add a data_full threshold parameter

At Library Archive Canada, we are producing 2 copies of LTO9 for our content. Using Scale and LTFS EE as a replication storage. We ideally need to eject copy2 out of a IBM TS4500 library to make them offline, air gaped and send them to a different...
9 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Needs more information

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Under review

In V12, add (restore) the capability to manage transaction logging at cube level.

Context V12 relies on transaction logs, a feature that is equivalent to that implemented in V11, through a Mongo DB. This feature notably allows data to be shared between replicas. While the transaction log is essential and justified for instance ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 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

Add GUI-based enforcement of minimum client version for Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Dear team, In earlier TM1 versions, administrators could block outdated client versions by setting the ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg. This parameter has since been deprecated and is no longer supported or available in current releases...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

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...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted