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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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Auto-scale and redeploy model on hardware errors

When a hardware issue occurs — for example, a GPU ECC error — and it is detected at the application layer, the model should be automatically rescheduled and redeployed to a healthy node. This mechanism should ensure service continuity by isolating...
10 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Submitted

Fix & Sortable Headers in Reporting – CUG2026

Ability to freeze row and column headers and sort by clicking column headers in lists and crosstabs.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

In-Report Comments in Reporting – CUG2026

Add commenting capabilities directly within reports, including write functionality.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
26 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Under review

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Drill-Through from Reporting to Dashboards – CUG2026

Support direct drill-through navigation from reports to dashboards.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Enhanced Visualizations in Reporting/Dashboards – CUG2026

A unified, feature-complete visualization type supporting master-detail, SVG output, high-resolution export (including PDF), and new chart types such as native Gantt charts.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Urgent confirmation required on NVIDIA B300 GPU support for Watsonx.AI, Watsonx.Orchestrate, and Watsonx.Data on-premises.

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
26 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration