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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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Enable to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

Customer requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, ...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Needs more information

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to various knowl...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: New/Specific Role for Group/User Management

PAW Administrator role is required to maintain users and groups. PAW Administrator role can stop databases. In our (Takeda) environment) we currently have 53 groups but would have more if above functions can be split. We would prefer to have one r...
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Upgrade or include gpg version 2.4.8+

For security reason, the data files received from other companies will be encrypted using PGP encryption. Yet, in the current IBM Cloud Pak for Data as a Service platform, the gpg version in IBM Cloud is 2.3.3, which was released in 2021. This may...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

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11 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio Submitted

A drop column should put an object in impaired status on IDAA

After a DROP COLUMN operation against a Db2 for z/OS table which is defined as an accelerator shadow table, and a subsequent online REORG to materialize the change, the table is not reported as "unimpaired" but a subsequent load operation fails wi...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Under review

Allow CTEs in EXPLAIN FOR

Currently explain-statements with common table expressions likeEXPLAIN PLAN FOR ( WITH ONE AS (SELECT IBMREQD FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1) SELECT * FROM ONE);fail with message SQL0199N because the WITH is not supported.So EXPLAINing statements with CTEs...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Allow customization of displayed content in inline dimension selectors (Subsets / Levels / Elements)

Dear team, Idea Description: In PAW Explorations and Cube Views, the content shown in inline dimension selectors currently depends on the placement of the dimension and offers almost no configuration options: When the dimension is placed in the ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Native Version Control Capabilities for AI Agents

Introduce native version control capabilities for AI agents in watsonx Orchestrate. This feature would allow users to create, tag, and manage multiple versions of the same agent—enabling safer deployments, rollback to previous versions, and tracea...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Planned for future release

Debugger Window Width

Following a recent update, the width of the debugger pane has been reduced, making it significantly less convenient to use. The narrower layout makes it difficult to clearly view all fields and parameters at once and requires substantially more sc...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics Submitted