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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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Ability to copy a Dashboard to another Profile

It should be great if it was possible to copy a Dashboard from one Profile ( profile-A ) to another Profile ( profile-B ) , in particular when all objects used by profile-A are also included in objects used by profile-B .Currently, it is not possi...
27 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration

Historical Project level resource usage data for CP4DaaS for IT budget planning

Current system shows monthly project statistics but lacks historical data SaaS services have been cut down, requiring active monitoring of group usage Project dashboard displays current month resource usage and shows zero usage for new month until...
27 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Automatically start up ATF Trace during start up OMPE Collector

You have the option to launch the ATF Trace when the OMPE Collector starts. This trace remains active (with the same normal ATF trace filters, such as PLAN and CORRID) and only intercepts and writes to the dataset when a certain threshold has been...

Add GUI-based enforcement of minimum client version for Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Dear team, In earlier TM1 versions, administrators could block outdated client versions by setting the ClientVersionMinimum parameter in tm1s.cfg. This parameter has since been deprecated and is no longer supported or available in current releases...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Is a defect

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server Under review

Guardrails Dashboard

Introduce a comprehensive dashboards view that provides visibility into guardrails, including pass/block metrics and detailed insights for each guardrail category (e.g., violence, PII, hate, self-harm, etc.). Currently, users lack a centralized, v...
5 months ago in watsonx.governance Planned for future release

Multitenancy support for CP4D MLOPs use cases, Openscale, IKC, Spark (Analytics Engine + WatsonX.Data spark)

Wells Fargo has two CP4D installs that require multi-tenancy support. One install's use case is MLOps, while the other is pure Spark usage. They would like to separate/isolate workloads by tenants, while maintaining a uniform UI. IBM Sosftware Hub...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Text String Edit Ability

The ability to edit a text string instead of having to overwrite the entire text. In perspectives this was an ability by using F2 + F9 then amending the text within the cell.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted