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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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Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Dynamic Navigation Target for Action Buttons (Book and Sheet name driven by TM1 Cube or Parameters)

Dear team, Description: Currently, Action Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace only support static navigation targets for Book name and Sheet (Tab) name. It should be possible to define these targets dynamically at runtime by reading values fro...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Minimize the permissions required to access the API /v2/runtime_definitions?include=launch_configuration

The client's data scientists use that API to increase temporary storage capacity when they need to create (in certain specific cases) a custom runtime with a resource-intensive library (such as LangChain, for example) for the online models they de...
22 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Add a possibility to set the sender E-Mail for Sharing or Plan Notifications to be not the user who is making the action but a fixed mailbox

Currently PAW uses a method to set the sender of Share Mails or Notification Mails to the Person who was pressing the Button or Shares. This leads to that a configured Mailbox send in the Name of a User. That is per Definition actually Spoofing. A...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

PAW must natively include websheets published via PAfE - just as TM1 Web does.

Idea: Tm1Web-like websheet access has to be available in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role. TM1 Web enables users to access websheets (which have been published via Planning Analytics for Excel) in a hierarchical fo...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

CICDE To Support the ability to Redeploy a Previously Deployed Release

Today if you try to redeploy a release that has already been deployed to a deployment environment the deployment fails - even if that release had been backed off with a recover. A release is deployed to a test environment too early, for example, a...
about 17 hours ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Submitted

Support simultaneous TM1 login across multiple separate Excel instances in PAfE

Currently, IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) does not officially support maintaining TM1 login sessions across multiple separate Excel instances/processes simultaneously. Historically, users were able to work across multiple separate Excel i...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Dify integration with end-to-end traceability

watsonx Orchestrate platform provide distinct value-added capabilities over widely-used open-source tools like Dify and LangFlow : High-Efficiency Management & Security: Deliver robust, enterprise-scale administration and security guardrails. ...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review