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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Add folders for queries and query items

When building large reports, it can become difficult to track all of the pieces. Folders would offer a great organizational mechanism. One of the largest reports I worked on had over 50 queries, and thousands of individual items. Simply scrolling ...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Add "Send Test Email" button in Plan Workflow – Email Notification Step

Dear team, Description: Please add a "Send Test Email" button directly inside the Email Notification configuration of a Plan Workflow. Current limitation (PAW 3.1.6): When configuring the email notification step in a Plan, there is no way to quick...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

High Availability for Db2 Tuning Services

Db2 Tuning services is currently a standalone started task. We will be integrating Tuning Services into a production operational system, to provide guardrails for AI generated queries against operational data stores. As it will form part of an ope...
2 days ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Implementation of WxO Guardrails for workflow

Implementation of the guardrail for workflow, should be implemented using the ADK as a pre‑invoke plug‑in; it cannot be configured through the IBM console UI. Currently there is no documentation or any clear instruction to guide developer to know ...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Relationship explorer - allow "focus artifact" to be switched without having to recreate the whole canvas

Using relationship explorer I can start from e.g. a specific business term, and then include related terms, primary category etc. It takes a good amount of effort to click through, decide on the layout etc. Now afterwards, I would like to reproduc...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

IBM CP4D Users statistics reporting

Currently in CP4D user admin session has very limited user CP4D usage statistics - previous session and just a green color showing user active.
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review