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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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.

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    Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

    This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
    about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    The timestamp function does not yet fully support use across multiple global locations with different time zones

    For example, the timestamp is set for Tokyo time and for US end users, when they sign-off on something using the workflow. If they are signing off on a test using the action button in the workflow at 12:00 noon, it will show a date of the next day...
    about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release

    SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

    Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
    5 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

    User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

    We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
    15 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    autosave capability

    Provide an autosave capability prior to the user being logged out of OpenPages. Currently, OpenPages logs out a user after 15 minutes of inactivity. Prior to that automatic logoff, OpenPages should save the latest draft of object.
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

    CP4D (IKC + Manta OEM ) EDB postgreSQL connector support (MDI, MDE, Lineage, IKC DB reporting)

    Context: CP4D SW v>=5.2.1 with Manta OEM Customer (Intesa SanPaolo Italy) need to use a CP4D supported EDB postgreSQL connector to implement: - Meta Data Import - Meta Data Enrichment - Lineage (using MDI get lineage from "IKC") - DB reporting ...
    2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

    New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

    As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    Oracle NetSuite connector

    Customers have a growing amount of ERP and ERP vendors do not like applications to connect to the back end data source. Customer is requesting for the ability to connect to Oracle NetSuite through API or other means. Once the connector is availabl...
    about 1 month ago in Connectivity 0 Needs more information

    Hide Public Filters

    There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
    5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

    Object Commenting - Reply To

    I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
    2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

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