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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,

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  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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setting to restrict pasting text to free text fields or forcing them to "paste as plain text"

We would like to have a setting where admin can restrict users to paste text or force users to use "paste as plain text" to free text fields like business terms or rules names etc. We have a lot of cases where users pasted text includes some speci...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Extract lineage for SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)

Our organization uses SAP BW to store data. We do not have a method to extract data lineage from it. The ASK: Add support for data lineage for SAP BW
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Enable native uploading and processing of .log files to allow users and teams to submit application and system logs directly for analysis, troubleshooting, and insights.

.log files are a primary source of truth for understanding system behavior, failures, and performance issues, yet they are often excluded or require manual workarounds (zipping, renaming, copy-pasting). By supporting direct .log file uploads, user...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Not under consideration

Putting Ai over a hash network or CubesOS

I believe the idea to put Ai onto CubesOS, as pertaining to bootup phase and thereon, unto eliminating interference by manipulating prompts or while Ai is being utilized. I would constantly see misinterpreted or censorship like qualities due to ba...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Syntax-Verification of DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES entries upon insert / update

Db2 Systemprofiles are configured via the two tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES and are filled by the customer. Some fields are restricted to specific values for proper function. However, there is no errorhandling, in case of inv...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

100% CRYPTO-PROOF™ – Global Blockchain-Integrated Payment Validation and Compliance System

Lack of verifiable proof of payment • Exposure to reversals and liquidity risk • Fragmented or missing compliance validation • Custodial exposure in cross-chain and fiat conversions A universal system is required that provides irrefutable proof, i...
2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Make Auto-start of PROFILE More Robust

We have experienced PROFILE auto-start failure when the DB2 Recovery process was not complete. Hopefully, a change is made to the DB2 product to make auto-start succeed even in cases like that.
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Instance-level quotas across watsonx products on software hub

Arrow is creating an experience center where multitenancy is important to allow them to bring customers in and have a space in the lab. Having the ability to give quotas for resources would prevent some user groups from "hogging" all the hardware ...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Customize Relationship Explorer UI for Business terms/Governance Artifacts - to be able to move the endpoints

In the Relationship Explorer for governance artifacts, we would like to have the option to move the endpoints. When exploring relationships for a business term, there are often many assigned assets and term relationships, which can overlap and mak...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration