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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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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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Dumping DB/schema tables into parquet files

Parquet files are becoming a standard for storing tables as flat files and moving data between different systems. Netezza currently supports parquet files as external tables but only using minIO. Would be great if there would be a way to offload w...
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

HISTDB logging access to views

In HISTDB on Netezza we are logging access to tables but not access to views. Would be great if at least access to the main view without any referenced views would be logged.
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server Submitted

Support user-defined calculations in Universal Reports

User-defined calculations are a frequently used option when working with Planning Analytics. In Perspectives, the use of subsets made it very easy to create your own consolidations. With PAfE, there is the DefineCalc function in conjunction with D...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Support Multi-AZ Configuration

We would like you to support a Multi-AZ configuration. Since OpenShift supports operation in a Multi-AZ setup, we believe that watsonx.governance, which runs on OpenShift, should also support Multi-AZ deployment. In particular, the guardrail funct...
3 days ago in watsonx.governance Under review

Support re-deploy of the same package when packageversion=false

we found out after the removal of a package from the cluster, there is no easy way to add such package back to rs. we should support add a package back if it has the same checksum, otherwise this will be an operational risk for us.
3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 Under review

Ability to set default settings/filter for Activity filter in the Activity tab

Currently the Activity tab has a filter for "Field", "Relationship" and "Workflow". Can we please allow the admin the option to set the default filters in this Activity tab? Rather than just the individual user being able to update the filter them...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Correct welcome message in Controller Web. User name in stead of userID

This is more user friendly, looks more integrated and is then aligned with Cognos Analytics which displays the Name, in stead of the userID Please find in the attachment section a screen shot (CA_vs_CW.png) of Cognos Analytics Web and Controller W...
11 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Database Cross Load for tables with XML-Columns (restriction SQL1407N)

Since XML columns were implemented in DB2 years ago, many customers want to transfer data from one database to another (e.g., when moving from an on-premises environment to the cloud). All data can be load via cross-load like this CALL ADMIN_CMD('...
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

Recycle Bin in UI – CUG2026

Provide a recycle bin for deleted objects with restore capability.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Planned for future release