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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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  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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Show clear error message when entering invalid dates in investment register

While using the new function of locking investment register for the past: if user enters an invalid date from the past, it will just disappear. There is no message or anything being shown. That is not user friendly, because there could be all sort...
27 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

IC reconciliation with the possibility to show differences in transaction currency only

In Controller Web IC reconciliation should include a filter to show differences in transaction currency only. This should be available on company and group level. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH. Corresponding ideas ...

Support Informix for Ubuntu 24.04

Useful for using Informix in Ubuntu 24 and higher.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 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

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 Under review

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Future consideration

Audit log should action originating IP

Having originating IP in shipped Audit logs is considered a main functionality, this addresses the security gap where security team cannot identify where this request is initiated from? who is taking actions? is it someone who has access to take a...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Inclusion of the Help Menu in the Security Groups

We need to implement security controls so that only users with elevated permissions are able to access Help > System Info. To support this requirement, we suggest including the Help menu within Security Groups, allowing access to be restricted ...
9 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

AgentOps for External Agents using OpenTelemetry in IBM watsonx Governance

Extend IBM watsonx Governance to support AgentOps (Agent Operations) for external and third‑party agents by leveraging OpenTelemetry (OTel) as a standardized observability and control layer. This enables IBM watsonx to monitor, govern, audit, and ...
10 days ago in watsonx.governance Submitted