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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Role‑Based Read‑Only Metadata Attributes-No97

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Provide the capability to define certain metadata attributes as read‑only by default, such as Criticality Rating and PRP ...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments when re‑importing metadata-No95

We need to enable notifications or have a validation mechanisms, or controls when re‑importing metadata to prevent overwriting or deleting existing enrichments.
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Automate NooBaa secret creation in ArgoCD deployment workflow for watsonx Orchestrate to eliminate manual post-deployment steps.

When deploying watsonx Orchestrate using ArgoCD workflow, the WxO operator creates an ObjectBucketClaim (wo-milvus-storage-bucket) but never creates three required secrets that wo-tools-runtime-manager pod needs: - noobaa-account-watsonx-orchestra...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

The “Copy Object” feature in Workflow Operations

[Features to be considered for future implementation]The “Copy Objects” feature available under Workflow > Action Properties > Operations > OperationDetailed functional requirements: Ability to specify copy conditions (When) and multiple ...
11 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation Future consideration

Import specification in web with at least same level of functionality as in classic

Data import: functions / operations, such as in CCR Classic for definition of import specification; Import spec should at least be as powerful as in Classic. At the same time there should be low barrier / self service access to import functionalit...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Needs more information

Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes

Implementing a read-only role in Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) for monitoring purposes is a best practice for several key reasons: Security and Least Privilege A read-only role adheres to the principle of least privilege, ensuring that monitoring user...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Allow the dimension editor to expand ancestors / descendants

Currently, there is no option to expand ancestors or descendants in the Dimension Editor; this functionality is only available in the Subset Editor. This creates a lack of uniformity in the system interface and results in unnecessary time spent ma...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

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