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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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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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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...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Fixed Color Assignment in UI/Dashboards/Reporting – CUG2026

Allow fixed, category-based color assignment for charts in Dashboards and Reports.
2 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Future consideration

Enable automatic TT tagging for Power BI fields that contain expressions.

Description Power BI fields containing transformation logic (e.g., DAX measures, calculated columns) are not currently tagged with the Transformation (TT) indicator in Manta lineage diagrams, despite expressions being captured and visible. Enhance...
3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Add STT/TTS trace and log visibility in voice channel

When using the voice (SIP) channel in WatsonX Orchestrate, there is currently no way to inspect what the STT engine transcribed from the user's audio input, nor what text was passed to the TTS engine for synthesis. This creates a significant obser...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Auto-scale and redeploy model on hardware errors

When a hardware issue occurs — for example, a GPU ECC error — and it is detected at the application layer, the model should be automatically rescheduled and redeployed to a healthy node. This mechanism should ensure service continuity by isolating...
18 days ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Submitted

Better integration of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics – CUG2026

Best way: Offer Planning Analytics (TM1) and Cognos Analytics as a single, unified platform with write-back support to TM1 cubes. or Provide possibility to create TM1 cubes with datamodules as source (single point of truth).
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Future consideration

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

native connector in the CP4DaaS platform with Microsoft fabric - OneLake

CP4DaaS has support for ADLS. BLOB and FILE (in the next release), and although OneLake is nothing but all microsoft storages - ADLS, BLOB and FILE,ADSL Gen 2 is not the same as Fabric & OneLake. While OneLake is based on ADSL, the connector t...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted