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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


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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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Multiple Instance per account for Data Intelligence (watsonx.data (SAAS))

IBM Cloud currently restricts Data Intelligence / watsonx.data SaaS to a single instance per account (in specific plans), and enterprises commonly work around this by creating multiple IBM Cloud accounts, which introduces governance and operationa...
1 day ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
1 day ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

API for IBM watsonx Data Intelligence

Create a Project Intelligence API that enables automated, governed, and metadata‑aware project creation within IBM watsonx.data, aligned with IBM’s data fabric, governance, and AI‑ready architecture. This API acts as a single control plane to onbo...
1 day ago in Data Product Hub Submitted

Enable custom email notification when an object is associated to another object

Hi team, Can we please enable being able to send email notifications for when an object is associated to another object? For example, we would like an email notification to be sent to users when a Critical Process is associated to an Incident. Thi...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

SSIS scan of event handlers that do not contribute to lineage should be logged as warnings, not errors.

While scanning SSIS dtsx packages using IBM Manta Data Lineage, we observed errors when SSIS System namespace variables are referenced inside event handlers specifically OnPostExecute. SSIS deployment in our organization does not use the MSSQL SSI...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Complete Data Lineage within our Data Platform products

Hi Currently we have a few keys and very populars products that doesn't have a complete lineage. Higher Priority IBM Data Replication (we use to have it in IGC) wx.data integration (StreamSets) Confluence Flink IBM ESB (MQ) wx.data since...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Integrated Data Lineage with Design Lineage from wx.data intelligence and Operation Lineage from wx.data integration

See information in this slack. wx.data intelligence can tell them what dashboard are affected if they plan to change these tables/columns (Impact analysis) assuming they uses tools that is supported by our scanner else it will be manual. Impact an...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Configurable attachment/version retention policy

Current DataStage/CAMS import behavior creates a new attachment/version every time assets are imported using the “replace” option. In enterprise CI/CD environments with automated deployments and shared dependencies, this quickly reaches the curren...
3 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Implement version numbering for a.o. Views, Workflows, Calculations

When transferring versions of the objects mentioned, it is important to be able to keep track of the version you are working on and want to deploy (DEV --> UAT --> PROD) and to allow tracking of the versions IN OpenPages and not outside Open...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Easy replication of Canvas Templates

To enable all objects of a certain type (e.g. Process, Risk etc.), it would be extremely beneficial to allow applying a canvas template to a bulk selection of these objects. Also, it would help to be able to export and import Canvas Templates betw...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Planned for future release