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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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CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
5 days ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

API for IBM watsonx Data Intelligence

Create a Project Intelligence API that enables automated, governed, and metadata‑aware project creation within IBM watsonx.data, aligned with IBM’s data fabric, governance, and AI‑ready architecture. This API acts as a single control plane to onbo...
5 days ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

Enable custom email notification when an object is associated to another object

Hi team, Can we please enable being able to send email notifications for when an object is associated to another object? For example, we would like an email notification to be sent to users when a Critical Process is associated to an Incident. Thi...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

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.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Decouple REORG (after REORG PENDING) and index rebuild of not enforcing indexes

When a table goes into REORG PENDING state the OFFLINE REORG needed not only runs the reorg but also rebuilds the indexes and the table stays unavailable for the whole time of all operations. Best scenario would be if the table becomes read access...
13 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Scheduling consolidation jobs in Controller Web

Possibility to plan consolidation jobs with a certain frequency, i.e. consolidate on an hourly basis – also in web. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration