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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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Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Functionality already exists

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Future consideration

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Unifying Audit logs

Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted