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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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Certificate authentication for DB2 LUW

In a heterogeneous environment, certificate authentication enables access to numerous services; among other things, it should also be possible for DB2 clients to connect to a DB2 database and to grant the user identified by the certificate the app...
less than a minute ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
about 4 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Private context variables

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
about 14 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
about 14 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Ability to use SystemModstamp as an Offset in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Origin with PK Chunking

Please support using systemModstamp as an offset in the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 origin to be used with PK chunking.
about 15 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, Mandeep Kapoor from Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting...
about 18 hours ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
about 18 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
about 22 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Human readable reasoning trace in the chat

Reasoning trace helps the end-user discover the thinking steps and agent took to answer a prompt. But, there are downsides to the current implementation: End user is shown a technical JSON file that's low on readability The reasoning trace is ...
about 22 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Enhance the capability to connect to Azure KeyVault and get private keys for snowflake authentication

This request is from Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd. (Formally JDA SOFTWARE GROUP_INC) As Snowflake is officially deprecating username and password authentication (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-mfa-rollout#deprecation-timeline) , we have ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted