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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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Enable usage of db2move copy as external refresh tool when mirroring

IBM CDC (IBM Infosphere Data Replication) External Refresh currently requires the export and import phases to be clearly separated so that the external unload can be marked between them. The documented workflow is: Run dmmarkexternalunloadstart s...
2 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Add View Asset Type Filtering and Export Capabilities in Catalog Search

there is currently no effective way to retrieve and export a complete list of these assets. Although the asset type is visible in the user interface, View is not available as a filtering option: Catalog search: users cannot filter the results to...
1 day ago in watsonx.data intelligence Under review

Request for Certify that IBM InfoSphere DataStage 11.7.1.6 SP3 is officially supported with Cloudera CDP 7.3.1

Good morning, Within our annual projetc's planning, we are currently scheduling to upgrade our Cloudera CDP cluster, running on version CDP 7.1.9 SP1, to target version CDP 7.3.2. In order to achive this goal, we have to certify all middleware sof...
2 days ago in DataStage Submitted

Improved navigation update on PAW Workbook action buttons

When an action button in a PAW workbook is set to navigate to another book it is possible to change the navigation. When the configuration tab is opened, the full path of the existing destination book is shown and each folder in the path can be cl...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Submitted

Include gallery images in Lifecycle Management

Now that it is possible to load images into a gallery that can then be used in PAW workbooks an additional complexity has been introduced. Currently these images are not automatically included in a Lifecycle Management deployment even if the image...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Toggle data entry capability on a workbook exploration

Exploration views in PAW are editable. If a nodal (leaf) level cell is visible any user (other than a consumer) is able to edit the values. Also, if spreading is enabled, the user can even enter data if at a consolidated level. To protect against ...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Dynamic process completion messages in PAW Workbooks

In a TI process it is possible to dynamically display a message on completion of a process using ItemReject and ProcessExitWithMessage. However, this only seems to work in Workbench. If you run the process from a Workbook the message isn't display...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

AI-Powered Autonomous Governance Assessment for Watsonx OpenPages

Concept Overview Transform  Watsonx Openpages from a traditional workflow-driven governance platform into an AI-powered Governance Copilot that automatically understands AI solutions, identifies risks, recommends controls, generates approval ...
about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages Submitted

Offer an alternative to TCP URG for cancelling queries from client side

Many firewalls are blocking TCP URG data for security reasons. It is also considered an old-fashioned technology. RFC 6093 discourages the use of it. Oracle also uses it, but can switch to normal in-band traffic with configuration. Other data...
1 day ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Submitted