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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:


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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,


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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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 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

GDPR : deletion or anonymisation of a User name after the GDPR legal retention period or following a legal GDPR request from the end-user himself.

Hi,Following the European GDPR requirements, we should allow the capability within OpenPages, to suppress or at least anonymize the end-users personal informations ( name, surname, email address, phone number, etc ...) stored within OpenPages afte...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Future consideration

Ability to affect a particular color to the header and the tab of a TFUI in order to quickly identify it amongst many opened TFUI tabs

The customer would like to be able to affect a particular color to the tab and the header of a TFUI ( user task view ) either globally at the administrator level or locally at the user profile level, in order to be able to quickly spot on and iden...
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Ability to revert data in workflows

This feature will help second line easily revert data submitted to them for review
8 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support XLSX file for TEXT&DOC EXTRACTION NODES

[Request] I would like to request wxO to support XLSX files for both FILE UPLOAD, and TEXT AND DOCUMENT EXTRACTION NODE. Currently, wxO onlly allow us to upload XLSX files via FILE UPLOAD NODE, however, the content is recognized as binary file as ...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

PAW Column Pin/Freeze in Cube View

The option to pin/freeze a column on a cube view would be useful for data to display on large cube views where the user has to scroll across to see data. Pinning such a view would enable the user to see selected column at al times, whilst seeing t...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted