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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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Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
22 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Add UI Support in Db2 Administration Foundation to Register New Db2 Accelerators

This enhancement would be extremely useful because, throughout the lifecycle of the Db2 Accelerator product, it is essential to be able to add new accelerators in a simple and user‑friendly way. Additionally, Db2 Administration Foundation is the o...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Under review

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Please enable ASLR

My company, a financial firm, uses Center for Internet Security (CIS) baselines as a configuration standard for OS and database platforms. CIS baselines for RHEL indicate that a feature named Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) should be ena...
8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Read-only for opening balances in data entry

It should be possible to lock opening balances for data entry in web. This idea is related to this idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-217 - please reconsider This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Expand description field for Import of journals in Controller Web

Import journals in Web allows only 65 characters in description => please extend to number of digits available in Journal Entry (Controller Classic+Web) so that imported descriptions do not get cut-off. This idea was raised out of the IBM Contr...
22 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release