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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).


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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,


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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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Extend custom color palettes to Appearance > Fill Color and Text Color for non-visualization objects in PAW books

Dear team, Current Limitation: Custom color palettes (global via Administration > Excel and Customizations > Palettes, or book-specific) work perfectly and are selectable in the Visualization > Color section for charts (bar, pie, column, ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improve cpdctl hotfix procedure

Currently, the only way to fix or update the cpdctl binary in CP4D (Watson Pipelines) is to manually download the latest version from GitHub and replace it in the container. This approach: Introduces compatibility risks, Lacks official support, Is...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Functionality already exists

Expand currency symbol options in PAW shapes and text objects (currently limited to $ only; add €, £, ¥, and others)

Dear team, Current Limitation: When adding shapes or text objects via "Add shapes and text" in a PAW book (e.g., rectangles, callouts, labels for KPIs/tiles), users can apply formatting to the text content, including currency/number styles under t...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support OpenSSL

Problem Statement Currently, GSKit is the only supported way of setting up TLS and cryptography in Db2 LUW. Because only IBM products rely on GSKit (as far as I know) it poses a higher barrier to entry when starting with Db2. While GSKit supports ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Not under consideration

Restriction Policy for User Permission Assignments

Addition of a restriction policy applicable to the set of permissions that can be assigned to a user profile. Currently, there is no mechanism to restrict a specific group of users to a “viewer‑only” profile without granting them access to project...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Catalog‑Level and Category‑Level Protection Rules

Currently, protection rules are not governed by specific categories. The client uses the platform to provide data to multiple distinct customers (government entities), each with unique governance, security, and data‑segregation requirements. Given...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

Make the asset filter consistent for MDI catalog and projects. Add advanced filtering option.

filter for assets in catalog and MDI job works differently. It applies different logic in background and displays different results for the same filter request. It's confusing. Also there is not much way to finetune the filter. Adding Advanced fil...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Under review

DB2 Plan invalidation

As of V13, a DB2 Plan packlist can point to specific packages. If all versions of the package are freed the Plan is invalidated. We've had a number of instances where programmers have removed programs no longer in use and invalidated active plans....
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Need SDK/API to initiate "Print to PDF" feature from batch or scheduler

We have a Requirement, where we need to submit all object details in PDF format to Regulator, We want to automate this process,
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Under review

Tool calls should have individual configurable timeouts

Currently all tool calls in WxO have a timeout of 2 minutes. This is not configurable at all in Cloud, and in order to configure it in CP4D you must change the timeout for *all* tool calls in the WxO deployment as well as configure timeouts for ot...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review