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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Four configuration options are missing in Audio Settings panel

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
21 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Dynamic Default Values in Dashboards/Data Modules – CUG2026

Support dynamic default values for dashboard filters and widgets, such as automatically selecting the latest available data.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Decouple REORG (after REORG PENDING) and index rebuild of not enforcing indexes

When a table goes into REORG PENDING state the OFFLINE REORG needed not only runs the reorg but also rebuilds the indexes and the table stays unavailable for the whole time of all operations. Best scenario would be if the table becomes read access...
8 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Data module with 2 multiple tm1 cubes - CUG2026

Actual it's not possible to user 2 multiple tm1 cubes in data modules with reporting component Excerpt from the documentation of 12.1.1: Data modules that contain only one IBM Planning Analytics cube are supported for Reporting and Data Sets Data ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
14 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

DB2 Load/Reorg failure - unable to drain scenario - request to issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load or reorg utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common cor...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted