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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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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Multi-language support for agentic workflows

Be able to automatically translate the output of an agentic workflow (text extractions, display message, forms, etc.) to the user original language. Right now, we have no full multilingual capacity other than creating a different agentic workflow ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
6 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS Under review

Mail function to inform all users

Possibility to inform all users in one go, e.g. on timeline changes, closing process or structure changes or any other information that needs to be distributed to this audience. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
23 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

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...
23 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 ...

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

List Dialog Assistant as Tool

This means that the existing dialog assistant (built on Dialogues) can be integrated into a new user interface — either as: a tool (a callable component used by another agent), or an independent agent In practice, this allows legacy Dialogues-base...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

METROPOLITAN TRIBUTAL ( T.V. Series)

🎬 METROPOLITAN TRIBUTAL Genre: Political Thriller / Crime Drama / Conspiracy Tone: House of Cards meets The Wire meets Gomorrah 🔥 Core Logline In a sprawling metropolitan supercity, elite government officials and powerful crime families secretly o...
9 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud Submitted

PAW: Dropdown Navigation

Implementing a Dropdown Navigation or expand function would be very useful and space-efficient on the front end. Ie a dropdown displaying a view of action buttons would allow for more user capabilities on the PAW front end.
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted