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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    Enable Persistent Saving of User Rows/Columns (Spacers) Directly in Universal Reports Web Interface

    Dear Team, Currently, user rows/columns (spacers) in Universal Reports can be added, edited, or removed in the web interface (Planning Analytics Workspace or TM1 Web), as well as fully edited and saved in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE). In th...
    about 3 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    WatsonX.ai to offer an OpenAI compatible endpoint to inference models

    Currently, WatsonX.ai does not provide an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for accessing models hosted on its platform. The OpenAI endpoint standard is widely used and supported by many open-source tools (such as OpenwebUI). In contrast, WatsonX only of...
    about 6 hours ago in watsonx.ai 2 Submitted

    Better dbaccess output formats

    CSV output, or at at least tabular output with headings would be appreciated A "quiet" or "errors only" mode would also be good, as too many times errors get lost because stderr was sent to /dev/null, because most of the things dbaccess writes t...
    about 8 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Update Statistics from secondary

    Given the statistics update process is almost entirely read-only, excecpt for the ind of each table/index, it would be useful to be able to run it from a secondary ( HDR/RSS Node ) too keep load off te primary
    about 8 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    DB2 - Correlation Identifier for RACF Access Checks Triggered by DB2 (FASTAUTH)

    Description of Current Situation: We recently migrated from Db2 internal authorization to RACF-based Db2 Security using RACF profiles. Functional behavior is correct, but transparent and auditable reporting of Db2 access decisions is currently not...
    about 9 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Allow click+drag functionality to highlight cells

    In Contributor our users were accustomed to being able to left click a cell and drag their mouse to select a large group of cells at once. In PAW they are not able to do this. The option does exist to Left Click to select a cell and then Shift + L...
    about 17 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    SFTP processor does not fetch new files

    The issue manifests in such a way that the SFTP processor processes only some files, while other files are not processed at all. The root cause is that the StreamSets engineering team implemented the SFTP processor using offsets instead of file na...
    about 22 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Support exactly once message delivery for Kafka

    Due to the lack of support for the exactly-once delivery model, StreamSets Data Collector cannot be used in a large number of practical use cases, which significantly reduces its overall applicability. The importance of exactly-once delivery is fu...
    about 22 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Preserving Column Order for ROWID and XML Columns in ADB2GEN

    In the ADB2GEN program, generating the DDL with the following parameters GENROWID = 'O' and LOBOBJECTS = 'C', allows the ROWID column to be created in the same position as in the source table. This is particularly useful when the ROWID column is n...
    1 day ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add Connections information as a metric into active Nginx pods and update HPA configuration to scale based on connections, not CPU.

    On December 2nd, 2025 when Digital traffic was diverted entirely to Central cluster, we noticed intermittent spikes in response times. we noticed internal connections failing (ie 404 errors from Redis) and with joint product team debugging determi...
    1 day ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

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