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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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  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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CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
about 9 hours ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS Submitted

Enhancements to the Share Report Dialogue window - enhancing kiosk / auto refresh mode

Within 12.1.3 the report share window now includes an option to auto-refresh. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=components-auto-refresh-reports This creates a URL that runs a report is kiosk mode. To support this new kiosk ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Service ID Authentication for Enterprise-Grade OpenPages–watsonx.governance Integration

The current integration model supports ( OpenPages–watsonx.governance )authentication only through a user API key. As a result, the integration cannot leverage a dedicated Service ID and remains dependent on an individual user account for system-t...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Submitted

Allow Optional CHAR-to-VARCHAR Conversion in DataGate to Preserve Application Transparency between Db2 for z/OS and Db2 LUW

When replicating data from Db2 for z/OS (EBCDIC) to Db2 LUW (UTF-8), DataGate increases the length of CHAR columns to accommodate Unicode expansion. While this behavior is understandable from a data integrity perspective, it can introduce applicat...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Tenant support for SQL/QReplication as source and target

The Db2 tenant concept is introduced in IBM Db2 12.1 and define an isolated, unique namespace for user-defined objects within a single database. It sits between the database instance and schema levels, allowing multiple independent groups or appli...
7 days ago in Db2 / Replication Submitted

orchestrate chat ask terminates session on widget response — CLI has no graceful fallback

When a native agent calls a tool whose MCP server returns a widget payload (a structured UI component such as an interactive table), the orchestrate chat ask CLI command terminates the entire chat session instead of gracefully degrading to a text ...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enhance the Oracle CDC stages to function without access to CDB$ROOT

Starting in Oracle 19.10, it is possible to connect to individual PDBs and read from LogMiner and not have to utilize CDB$ROOT. This method is necessary for customers utilizing products such as Oracle Autonomous Database or Oracle AI Database@[ven...
1 day ago in StreamSets Submitted

Provide configurable output options for PAW Burst Export instances

Dear team, Background Planning Analytics Workspace allows users to burst a Book based on synchronized hierarchies. The current Burst Export functionality allows users to select an export format such as PDF / Powerpoint or ZIP. However, the way ind...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Request to Reconsider HTTPS Change Due to Business Impact

We are writing to raise an important concern regarding the recent transition to HTTPS and its impact on our organization, STC. While we fully understand and support the importance of security, compliance, and modern security standards, the recent ...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Bulk uploading test cases in Orchestrate UI

The evaluation framework within the Orchestrate ADK enables you to provide test cases via a CSV file. The previous Analytics dashboard in the Orchestrate UI on IBM Cloud also allowed this to be done, however, with the launch of the new Control Pla...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted