Skip to Main Content
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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results

Showing 351 of 351

Use of User Friendly Terms for Metrics on the Governance Console

Certain metrics are tracked, some have names that are pretty intuitive as to what they measure, such as ROUGE. Others are industry technical jargon like SARI that do not indicate much to a lay or non technical person looking at the metric. This pr...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.governance 0 Under review

XML Support for Reference Data Request/Response from IKC via API

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC only supports JSON format for API requests and responses. This limits flexibility for users who prefer or require XML format. Proposed Solution: Expand IKC's API support to include XML format for both requests and...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Mapping for RDM Data Imports

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC-RDM requires manual mapping of data elements to their corresponding column names and data types when importing data from files like CSV, XML, or JSON. This can be time-consuming and error-prone, especially for dat...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Automated Reference Data Cleanup and Versioning Maintenance

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC creates a new version for each updated dataset, leading to the accumulation of older versions. There is no built-in mechanism to automatically purge older versions or retain only a specific number of recent versio...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Datalake HIVE Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Datalake and accessible from Hive Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-pro...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Metrics on CP4D service utilization by users/projects

Our team oversees over 300 developers working on more than 200+ projects in CP4D, utilizing a wide range of assets. Identifying the specific types of assets, services, and cartridges that our users are employing has been a significant challenge. W...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Mode context menu added to extension system

I would like the context menu that pops up when clicking on a report object to be included in the extension system. This should also allow an admin to the individual options as features in people/customization. This would make the UI more consiste...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration