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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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Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Customizing the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace login page

Good morning, at Deutsche Bahn, various applications are made available centrally via short links. This allows end users to quickly and intuitively find their applications, for example as follows: https://db.de/office https://db.de/paw The w...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Use of J type intercompany with period looping import specs in Controller Web

For Controller Web import specs with looping by period, there is no ability to define the start column for the transaction amount field. If customers use J type intercompany accounts for their actual imports, we would expect them to want to use th...
6 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Add details about Oracle XStream licensing implications (if any) to our Oracle XStream connector docs

customer are afraid of oracle licensing implication
1 minute ago in StreamSets Submitted

Make the audit trail for Defined Risk List Entries exportable

We have a need to be able to export or print to PDF the audit trail within Defined Risk List Entries in order to see when an entry was added/removed and by whom. This is important for model governance purposes. We can do this within the detailed a...
6 minutes ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business Submitted

The current EEM design is technically sound for manually managed or UI‑driven environments

The current EEM design is technically sound for manually managed or UI‑driven environments. However, without broader Custom Resource Definition (CRD) and API support, adoption in fully automated Kubernetes and GitOps‑based environments becomes sig...
2 minutes ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data Submitted

Enable search functionality within multi-select dropdown filters in Cognos dashboards.

Currently, Cognos dashboards support search functionality for single-select filters but not for multi-select dropdowns. This limitation requires users to manually scroll through long lists (e.g., work locations) to find and select values, which is...
4 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Import specification in web with at least same level of functionality as in classic

Data import: functions / operations, such as in CCR Classic for definition of import specification; Import spec should at least be as powerful as in Classic. At the same time there should be low barrier / self service access to import functionalit...
about 4 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted