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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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Implement rate limiting (1.2/3) - size of incoming and outgoing requests

wxO is used externally in B2C mode, asking for rate limiting for several aspects : - Security, to avoid a DoS attack and wxO to become less responsive,- Consumption, avoiding consuming too many token, and having a too long conversation to redirect...
20 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

GUI and ISPF not able to share application profiles

In the Recovery Expert - ISPF or non GUI created application profiles are not visible via GUI and vice versa. It seems a bit limiting in that the whole end to end process needs to sit within the same interface. It would be nice to have our applica...
4 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS Under review

Ability to Recover Db2 Catalog and Directory

I have been notified by our Db2 System Programmers that Recovery Expert OR the Recovery Expert Pro, both, cannot recover Db2 Catalog and directory. It seems a bit limiting to me that a product specialising in Db2 Recovery (and called a PRO) is not...
4 days ago in Db2 Recovery Expert Pro for z/OS Under review

Correct welcome message in Controller Web. User name in stead of userID

This is more user friendly, looks more integrated and is then aligned with Cognos Analytics which displays the Name, in stead of the userID Please find in the attachment section a screen shot (CA_vs_CW.png) of Cognos Analytics Web and Controller W...
16 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

DB2 Load/Reorg failure - unable to drain scenario - request to issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load or reorg utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common cor...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Under review