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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).


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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:


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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,


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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,

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  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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Complete Data Lineage within our Data Platform products

Hi Currently we have a few keys and very populars products that doesn't have a complete lineage. Higher Priority IBM Data Replication (we use to have it in IGC) wx.data integration (StreamSets) Confluence Flink IBM ESB (MQ) wx.data since...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Integrated Data Lineage with Design Lineage from wx.data intelligence and Operation Lineage from wx.data integration

See information in this slack. wx.data intelligence can tell them what dashboard are affected if they plan to change these tables/columns (Impact analysis) assuming they uses tools that is supported by our scanner else it will be manual. Impact an...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
7 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Adding Financial function Internal Rate of Return (IRR) to TM1 Rules

Adding an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) feature to IBM Planning Analytics TM1 Rules will significantly enhance its value for financial analysis and decision-making. IRR is a crucial metric for evaluating the profitability of investments and projec...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics Dashboard CUG2026

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration

Connecting watsonx.data to Oracle using tnsnamens.ora

Develop a possibility to connect watsonx.data to Oracle database using the tnsnames.ora instead of hostname and password.
about 2 months ago in watsonx.data Submitted

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z Under review

watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Under review