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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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Extend “View related cubes” to identify indirect dimension references

Dear team,  Product: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Component: Modeling Workbench – View related cubes Problem / Motivation############# The existing “View related cubes” function identifies cubes that directly contain a selected dimension....
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Default Report Creation Options for New Worksheet and New Workbook in PAfE

Current Behavior Customers using PAfE frequently work with multiple Excel workbooks and worksheets containing TM1 reports. When creating a new report, the default option is to create the report on the currently active worksheet. This creates a ris...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

DDL Integration for Schema registry like targets. Eg Event Hub, Kafka, Iceberg

DDL Integration on source and target was a mutual interaction between source and target and ddl interchange between both. With current technologies like Kafka and Iceberg (which contain schema registry/catalog solutions) the target eases the way.T...
2 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Reduce bjgroup query sizes

Reduce overall data payload for large cluster and heavy use of job groups
1 day ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Planned for future release

AGENT-RECOVER — Checkpoint-and-rollback recovery for failed Orchestrate agent runs

Checkpoint-and-rollback recovery when multi-step agent runs fail midway.
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

AUTHORITY-BOUNDS — Agent authority-boundary controls for ERP write actions

Framework skill wrapping agent ERP writes in spending limits, approvals, and ledger.
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Have the /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 be OpenAI compatible - API design incompatibility is blocking third-party integration

The current API for uploading files into Orchestrate: /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/watsonorchestrate--custom-assistants/api/API--watsonorchestrate--agent-execution-and-runtime#upload_to_s3_v1_orchestrate_uplo...
5 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Db2 should have a logo as other database products do e.g. Postgres, MongoDb etc

when writing and presenting information in a data flow OR documentation it will be helpful if there was a logo to represent Db2. Most other database products have logos which are instantly recognisable.
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support Fabric OneLake as a staging location for the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement / pain point (real-life scenario):We are implementing CP4D's "Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse" connector for a multi-country banking client whose entire data platform is built natively on Microsoft Fabric — a single Fabric works...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

Support Entra ID client secret credential (Service Principal) for Azure Blob Storage staging in Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement: The Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse connector in IBM DataStage SaaS supports a bulk write (Load) mode that requires Azure Blob Storage as a staging layer via COPY INTO. However, the Azure Blob Storage staging option within the ...
20 days ago in DataStage Submitted