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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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.

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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...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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

In V12, add (restore) the capability to manage transaction logging at cube level.

Context V12 relies on transaction logs, a feature that is equivalent to that implemented in V11, through a Mongo DB. This feature notably allows data to be shared between replicas. While the transaction log is essential and justified for instance ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted
539 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Under review

Enable secure support for custom Hugging Face models requiring trust_remote_code=True in watsonx.ai BYOM workflows

I am working on deploying a state-of-the-art vision-language model (VLM) via Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in watsonx.ai Runtime (WML), specifically using the vLLM-based inference runtime. The model delivers significantly improved accuracy for OCR a...
7 days ago in Watson Machine Learning / Product functionality Submitted

Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Submitted

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