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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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Provide a property/flag to access the DB2 catalog directly or the current graph database

Since the graph database database needs to be refreshed at regular intervals, therefore will always be out of sync with the real world and create there a window to allow for incorout situation where DAF is not aware of new DB2 objects created via ...
2 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Submitted

API Keys with restricted access permissions

We want to enable users to enact only certain functionalities, such as triggering a job run. Currently, the way we do that is to give them access to a username and zenApiKey as credentials to run the job through the api. However, tech-savvy users ...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12

Enhancement Proposal – Oracle 19c with Exadata(on-prem) Support for MDM Version 11.6.0.12 ANZ Bank is undertaking a strategic, enterprise-wide platform transformation in which all Oracle databases across the organisation are being migrated from So...
2 days ago in Master Data Management Submitted

A identity in the DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE that uniquely identifies a SQL statement

The hash columns, STMT_HASHID2 and QUERY_HASH, in DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE the STMT include prepare attributes, bind parms, package and so on, with the actual SQL statement. We would like to have a identity that is only based on the actual SQL s...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Toggle to continue showing feedback in chat after user submits it

There is no toggle to allow additional feedback that a user has provided to continue showing in chat after the user submits it. Therefore, there's no way for a user to scroll back up in the chat to see the feedback that they had provided. This wou...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
7 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Global Control over Automatic Disabling of DATA CAPTURE CHANGES

Current Behavior: When a subscription is deleted or a table is removed from replication, IBM CDC automatically issues an ALTER TABLE to disable the DATA CAPTURE CHANGES flag on the source Db2 tables. This is governed by the system parameter alter_...
27 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Future consideration

Modernized Prompts in Reporting – CUG2026

Modern, responsive prompts with resize support, auto-complete, and toggle, slider, and multiselect controls.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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