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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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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.

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Need a systematic way to determine if customers are interrupting or if they are being interrupted. Need to understand if this is driving abandons.

Per Jasmeet Singh on 11-20-25 (pursuant to Monday.com ticket https://forms.monday.com/forms/6ff1a599cfa1ce3d0ad3b82ad457850c?r=use1&submissionId=dec25df5-6288-4b7d-a66d-860fd98acb73 ): "vgwBargeInOccurred is an indicator to see if a barge in h...
about 1 hour ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
15 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Active Tenant Selector in the Menu Bar for Planning Analytics for Excel (PaFE) V12

Dear IBM team, It would be a valuable addition to include an "Active Tenant Selector" directly in the menu bar of PaFE V12. This feature would display the currently connected tenant at a glance and incorporate a convenient combo box for quick swit...
28 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Tabs for Open Content in Reporting

In reporting there is currently a drop down to view what multiple reports, dashboards etc a user has open, this is located in the middle, It would be useful for users to have a tabbed view of what's open and also encourage users to close content t...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

dismissing the success toast automatically and/or per time parameter

Hello, for now, if there is a success message for the process or for saving a view or whatever, it is dismissed automatically after 5-10 seconds, maybe not everywhere, but in the most cases, so please check it and update that is has the same behav...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Default message for conversation closure in Digression

In the digression there is a disambiguation step that determines whether or not to return to the original flow. However, when the user selects the "No" option, the conversation ends abruptly. The suggestion is to enhance this behavior by allowing ...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

"Continue" vs "Continue & Close Tab"

Currently, when a pop up or confirmation window appears, the options are "Continue" and "Continue & Close Tab." This is redundant and confusing for submitters. These options should be customizable or able to be streamlined into one option is a...
3 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

Provide compatability between releases and PTF levels

We are a large multi system multi SYSPLEX environment with a minimum of 5 9's uptime availability across the board. Therefore, we normally do not upgrade anything across all LPAR'S of a SYSPLEX at the same time and certainly do not take down all o...
8 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

"Plan sidebar" hidden by default when opening a PAW Application

When a user opens a PAW Application, the Plan sidebar is show and occupies 1/3 of the screen. Many customers have requested to set this to be hidden by default becasue it is not comfortable to have to close the side bar manually every time a user ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Reset the serial value in the partition page if the table no longer has a serial column

If you want to check whether a serial value is close to its maximum value, it is very unpleasant that tables that no longer have a serial value or whose serial value has been changed to a Serial8 or BigSerial value still have the last value in the...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted