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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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Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Make Widget Edges (black thick border box) an Optional Feature

Summary In a book, when I click to select and focus a widget (object), it shows a thick black border with padding around the widget, with a button to maximise/resize the widget (known as resizeEdge), which overlaps over other widgets. Description ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace multi PASS web host load balancing Feature

Currently in the IBM planning analytics PAW versions so far as of 11/25/24 , There is no ability to define multi host PASS web URLs in the PAW.env configuration file for PAW load balancing when respective host PASS web sheets are used in the paw w...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Filter out old entries from log viewer when the workflow executions are missing in process manager in Manta

Background: The process manager in Manta sometimes goes through data corruption and reverts back to an earlier state. Let's illustrate with an example: Let's say I have a manta instnaces where I have execeuted a few workflows. I have workflow exec...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Support notebook code to write any file format and allow user to 'Export' (download)

Currently, DSXL only supports writing .csv files in Data Sets. In that case, the user can view the file and export/download the file to the local machine for further processing.Other file formats can be written, but the file cannot be viewed or ex...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Change scale of Planning Analytics Workspace Websheets

Issue When adding a websheet to a PAW book, there is often a scroll bar on the websheet widget if it is bigger than the book canvas. A websheet can sometimes appear more zoomed in on PAW than Excel so it is often easier to consume the content in P...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review