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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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.

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Update Satellite Connector to dynamic ports and rotating credentials

Technical Problem Connectivity Challenge: Client needs to connect to their on-premises Oracle RAC database using IBM Satellite connector, but it's not secure in its current configuration Dynamic vs. Static Ports: Client's security requirements...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add Book Information to Workspace TM1 Session Context

Hi all, At the moment, when a user connects via Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), the TM1 session Context field includes valuable details such as: PAfE/Version (0); Excel/Version (x64, WorkbookName, WorksheetName) This information is extremely ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance (CA, TM1, PAW)

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Analytics stack (Cognos Analytic...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Multi-language support for agentic workflows

Be able to automatically translate the output of an agentic workflow (text extractions, display message, forms, etc.) to the user original language. Right now, we have no full multilingual capacity other than creating a different agentic workflow ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
6 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS Under review

Proactively post messages to a channel via WXO (API)

There are tons of usecases where it is helpful to be able to proactively send messages to a channel which is connected to wxo already. Assume the following usecase:A user is creating a ticket for something not working in their flat with their prop...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Add network‑level metrics and break latency into source, transport, and target components

Network‑level observability is currently minimal; there is no visibility into gets/puts, zero‑window conditions, retransmissions, or other TCP indicators. End‑to‑end latency is reported as a single number based on transaction commit time, which hi...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Enable continuous, per‑subscription performance statistics and catch‑up estimations

The DB2 z/OS source engine only reports discrete, commit‑based metrics, and many source‑side statistics are available only at the capture level (e.g., log‑cache footprint). As a result, operators have no visibility into subscription‑level read rat...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Provide component‑level bottleneck diagnostics and root‑cause metrics for CDC pipelines

Customers cannot reliably identify the exact part of the pipeline that is limiting performance. Current snapshot views only surface a generic “target database” or “Target Engine” bottleneck, and the “SOURCE communication wait” metric shows that th...
8 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

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