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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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Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
about 14 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support Fabric OneLake as a staging location for the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement / pain point (real-life scenario):We are implementing CP4D's "Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse" connector for a multi-country banking client whose entire data platform is built natively on Microsoft Fabric — a single Fabric works...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Support Entra ID client secret credential (Service Principal) for Azure Blob Storage staging in Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement: The Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector in IBM DataStage SaaS supports a bulk write (Load) mode that requires Azure Blob Storage as a staging layer via COPY INTO. However, the Azure Blob Storage staging option within the ...
11 days ago in DataStage 3 Submitted

DB2 VTAM to TCP change on location length

Hi team, We are doing testing on DB2 ZOS VTAM to TCP convert. We have some DB2 subsystem with longer than 8 char. to setup DB2 IPNAME didn't raise anything, but when we try to query it, we can not use the existing location name, but have to define...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Parallel Chunk Backup for ON-Bar and ifxclone

Large Informix dbspaces and sbspaces often consist of many chunks added over time. Although Informix 15 supports very large instances, ON-Bar and ifxclone process chunks within a dbspace or sbspace sequentially. A 5 TB sbspace with 30 chunks backe...
about 17 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

DB2 UI should support selection of active tenant

As with db2 12 multitenant support was added, using the UI of the DB2 Cloud service is limited when using the tenant functionality. While for the SQL window it is still possible to use "Set Tenant X" as a first statement followed by the actual SQL...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Browser Notifications for Agent Updates

I’d like to suggest adding optional browser notifications to Watson Orchestrate. Users could receive a notification on their Despktop when an agent sends a message or finishes responding to a query even when they’re working in another tab or windo...
7 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

rebrand Db2 back to DB2

🙂 We the customers need Db2 rebranded back to DB2 as this still, after all these years, feels VERY strange to us and we fail to understand the benefit that the name Db2 brings to the table. I am at IDUG EMEA 2026 and have asked a lot of my fellow ...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide the official IBM support for a Pure-Go Db2 LUW Driver

Real-life scenario / Problem statement Banco do Brasil is increasingly adopting the Go programming language for the development of modern applications and services that require direct access to IBM Db2 LUW databases. Currently, IBM does not provid...
19 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Collection Name Column Length Expansion

Enhancement Request In the Db2Admin stored procedure object search panel, please display the full collection name without truncation. Currently, users must use I (Interpretation) or F10/F11 to navigate horizontally and view the complete value, whi...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted