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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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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.

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700 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under 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 ...
5 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 ...
6 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...
6 days ago in watsonx.data intelligence 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...
6 days ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

API for IBM watsonx Data Intelligence

Create a Project Intelligence API that enables automated, governed, and metadata‑aware project creation within IBM watsonx.data, aligned with IBM’s data fabric, governance, and AI‑ready architecture. This API acts as a single control plane to onbo...
6 days ago in Data Product Hub Needs more information

Enable custom email notification when an object is associated to another object

Hi team, Can we please enable being able to send email notifications for when an object is associated to another object? For example, we would like an email notification to be sent to users when a Critical Process is associated to an Incident. Thi...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Auto-scale and redeploy model on hardware errors

When a hardware issue occurs — for example, a GPU ECC error — and it is detected at the application layer, the model should be automatically rescheduled and redeployed to a healthy node. This mechanism should ensure service continuity by isolating...
about 1 month ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Submitted
610 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics Not under consideration