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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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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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IDAA Loader: Improve Restartability Through Automatic Cleanup of Failed LOAD Jobs

💡 Idea Details IDAA Loader should provide improved restartability for failed LOAD jobs by supporting automatic or integrated cleanup of incomplete LOAD operations. Currently, when an IDAA Loader job fails, the previous LOAD operation may require a...
2 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Submitted

IDAA Loader: Allow Automatic Space Estimation for IDAA_DUAL Work Datasets

💡 Idea Details IDAA Loader currently requires an explicit SPACE parameter for the allocation of work-related datasets used by IDAA_DUAL , including MAPDDN , ERRDDN , DISCARDDN , and WORKDDN . In our environment, when these datasets are defined wit...
2 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add a slider widget to evaluate / assess objects

Slider widget is very easy to use and visual. It accelerates the seeting of evaluations on a risk or control.
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics supports the Microsoft Analysis Services 2025 (M17) data server (ODBO and XMLA)

Hello, After updating the Microsoft Analysis Services source from the old 2016 version to the latest 2025 version (which has been generally available as RTM/GA since November 18, 2025), the Microsoft Analysis Services source and OLAP cubes stopped...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

to be able to modify a LSF job using alternative resources (-R with ||)

Hello, When we try to modify a running using alternative resources, bmod is failing with following error message: Cannot change rusage to a new || (or) expression after the job was dispatched. This is a design limitation as we can see on the bmod ...
3 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Guided Knowledge Capture Workflows

PROBLEM: Expert know-how lives in people's heads and leaves when they leave; written manuals go stale because capturing the workflow is slower than doing it. SOLUTION: A capture workflow that records an expert performing a task on screen, turns th...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

AI Studio Audit Ledger

PROBLEM: A creator's studio can silently change assets, prompts, or settings, and without a record the creator cannot tell what changed, when, or by which agent. SOLUTION: An append-only audit ledger for the studio: every prompt, model, setting ch...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Solo Creator Rights and Attribution Ledger

PROBLEM: When AI agents remix a solo creator's work across formats, the chain of authorship, licenses, and consents gets lost, leaving the creator unable to prove what was theirs or what was permitted. SOLUTION: A ledger that records, per asset, t...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Multi-Agent Studio Orchestration for Solo Creators

PROBLEM: A solo creator juggling writing, art, audio, and publishing agents faces coordination chaos: agents overwrite each other, lose versions, or publish drafts by mistake. SOLUTION: A studio orchestrator that assigns each agent a role and a wo...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Hardware-Trust Attestation Registry

PROBLEM: Buyers and operators cannot easily tell which hardware units carry verifiable trust evidence versus marketing claims, so trust decisions rest on paperwork rather than measurements. SOLUTION: A registry that stores per-unit attestation evi...
about 11 hours ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted