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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


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



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Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

WCA4Z - Enhance IBM ADDI with Enterprise-Scale Automation Capabilities

Based on our development setup and recent findings regarding the IBM ADDI component, we have identified several areas where enhanced automation capabilities would significantly improve our onboarding process and overall user experience: 1. RBAC an...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Federated AI for Secure Multi-Enterprise Collaboration

Why Is It Useful? In many industries, organizations hold valuable data that could collectively improve AI models—such as for fraud detection, disease diagnosis, or supply chain optimization—but data privacy, regulations, and competitive concerns p...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Encrypting and Decrypting Stored Procedures

Would like Informix to have feature of encrypt the source code for a stored procedure and function.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

Excel Export Format

When exporting from OpenPages, the only available format is 1997-2003 which is incompatible with Encryption tools etc. Whilst the file can be resaved as a more current format (xlsx), a better user experience would be to have this format available ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

SMTP/STARTTLS Support

SMTPS is not compatible with all exchange servers (e.g. MS exchange) which breaks. The support of secure SMTP channel is required for any production environment. Therefore, SMTP/STARTTLS is to be supported by the product to ensure feasible integra...
9 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

Need to Encrypt credentials within the application itself before transmitting them over the network in IIS UI

We are able to see the credentials in Plain text. We are not using any testing tool to capture the packet. we are just inspecting the packet in browser in debugger mode and able to see the password in the browser in plain text. Please encrypt the ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Need to Encrypt credentials within the application itself before transmitting them over the network in BPM UI

We are able to see the credentials in Plain text. We are not using any testing tool to capture the packet. we are just inspecting the packet in browser in debugger mode and able to see the password in the browser in plain text. Please encrypt the ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Need to Encrypt credentials within the application itself before transmitting them over the network in MDM UI

We are able to see the credentials in Plain text. We are not using any testing tool to capture the packet. we are just inspecting the packet in browser in debugger mode and able to see the password in the browser in plain text. Please encrypt the ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review