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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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zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
19 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Enable continuous CDC mirroring while a table in a subscription is refreshed via external load

The client runs nightly load‑replace refreshes on a high‑volume table (Ultrawide table, > 200 M rows). During the refresh the CDC engine pauses the entire subscription, causing latency spikes that could breach the client’s internal SLA for all ...
4 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Inclusion of the Help Menu in the Security Groups

We need to implement security controls so that only users with elevated permissions are able to access Help > System Info. To support this requirement, we suggest including the Help menu within Security Groups, allowing access to be restricted ...
5 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

AgentOps for External Agents using OpenTelemetry in IBM watsonx Governance

Extend IBM watsonx Governance to support AgentOps (Agent Operations) for external and third‑party agents by leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTel) as a standardized observability and control layer. This enables IBM watsonx to monitor, govern, audit, and ...
5 days ago in watsonx.governance Submitted

Multiple Instance per account for Data Intelligence (watsonx.data (SAAS))

IBM Cloud currently restricts Data Intelligence / watsonx.data SaaS to a single instance per account (in specific plans), and enterprises commonly work around this by creating multiple IBM Cloud accounts, which introduces governance and operationa...
5 days ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
5 days ago in Data Product Hub Submitted