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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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Automated Backup for DataStage Anywhere

Built-in scheduling for automated (non-manual) project and metadata backups. Currently this is done by a manual process of backup/restore
8 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Schedule a single job multiple times a day with different parameters via UI for DataStage Anywhere

This feature currently is supported in Datastage 8 and 9 however it is nos possible in DataStage SaaS. We require this feature to be available in the UI. The details of the scenario is described in this ticket: TS021624305. Currently there is a sh...
8 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Enable to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

Customer requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, ...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Needs more information

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to various knowl...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace: New/Specific Role for Group/User Management

PAW Administrator role is required to maintain users and groups. PAW Administrator role can stop databases. In our (Takeda) environment) we currently have 53 groups but would have more if above functions can be split. We would prefer to have one r...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Upgrade or include gpg version 2.4.8+

For security reason, the data files received from other companies will be encrypted using PGP encryption. Yet, in the current IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service platform, the gpg version in IBM Cloud is 2.3.3, which was released in 2021. This may...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

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9 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio Submitted

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9 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud Submitted