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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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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.

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Table-level synchronization monitoring for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, IBM Data Gate for watsonx exposes only generic monitoring information (e.g., inserted rows, updated rows) at a global level, without visibility into synchronization status per database or table. This makes it difficult for customers to: Val...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Efficient ingestion with equality deletes and automated optimization to vector deletes for Iceberg tables for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Bradesco recognizes that generating vector deletes directly within IBM Data Gate for watsonx is not feasible, as it would require read-after-write operations and significantly degrade synchronization performance. To solve this, we propose a two-st...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Burmese Language Support

We are requesting Burmese language support in IBM Cognos Analytics for customers and users who need to work in Burmese. At present, Burmese does not appear to be available as a supported Cognos product or content locale in our environment, which p...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enable SQL optimization, also known as SQL pushback, for Cloudera connector

Enlarge the list of data sources that benefit from this performance improvement by adding another connector. All customers worldwide using Modeler on CP4D and Cloudera will benefit from this improvement.
10 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Submitted

LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Under review

Agent Release Details Display

Display key agent metadata on the front-end, including the internal name (not just the display name), release version, and release date. This way, users can easily identify which version of each agent is currently active across the Chat, Manage, a...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable secure support for custom Hugging Face models requiring trust_remote_code=True in watsonx.ai BYOM workflows

I am working on deploying a state-of-the-art vision-language model (VLM) via Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in watsonx.ai Runtime (WML), specifically using the vLLM-based inference runtime. The model delivers significantly improved accuracy for OCR a...
11 days ago in Watson Machine Learning / Product functionality Submitted

Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Future consideration