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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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Always‑Available OpenPages: Zero‑Downtime Configuration Deployments

Enterprise customers increasingly expect high availability and uninterrupted access to governance, risk, and compliance systems. Currently, OpenPages configuration deployments result in temporary system unavailability, impacting business users dur...
5 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Future consideration

Add ability to test final rules in the test sandbox

Final rules could be more readily and easily verified by allowing them to be tested through the test sandbox.
5 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational Future consideration

GDPR : deletion or anonymisation of a User name after the GDPR legal retention period or following a legal GDPR request from the end-user himself.

Hi,Following the European GDPR requirements, we should allow the capability within OpenPages, to suppress or at least anonymize the end-users personal informations ( name, surname, email address, phone number, etc ...) stored within OpenPages afte...
10 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Future consideration

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to various knowl...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: New/Specific Role for Group/User Management

PAW Administrator role is required to maintain users and groups. PAW Administrator role can stop databases. In our (Takeda) environment) we currently have 53 groups but would have more if above functions can be split. We would prefer to have one r...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Sync Scroll in PAW

On cube views that are synced to same group, an option for 'sync scroll' would enable users to scroll on a cube view and another view would also scroll in sync at the same time.
14 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Use of SSSD to configure authentication and authorization

To configure authentication and authorization and to anticipate the obsolescence of configuration tools, we would like that Safer Payments leans on SSSD which is the official tool of RHEL (Safer Payments leaning on openldap at the present time).
14 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Future consideration

Prevent network egress at runtime for any authentication endpoint not on the tenant allow list

In industries with elevated compliance & security requirements there is often a need for multi-layered security. Currently Orchestrate's security model makes the assumption that the builder role is fully trusted. What happens if a builder thro...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Admins can turn on network restrictions for tools to connect in UI

Some organizations want to restrict the IP addresses that should be allowed to connect. This capability is just being introduced into the CLI, but isn't managed or accessible in the UI. Use cases: Org wants to limit the network connections that or...
17 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Enable MAXTRANSSIZE parm for Classic CDC for VSAM

When batch jobs perform a large number of updates to VSAM, it create 1 UOR that contains too many changes which made the capture cache may full. However, cache memory are shared by subscriptions. We cannot stop other subscriptions to free cache. F...
18 days ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture Future consideration