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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Cloud Pak for Data

Deploy Planning Analytics platform without including some images

At Citi, we are not deploying Watsonx or agentic capabilities, as these technologies are not currently approved for use within IBM Planning Analytics. We would like the option to deploy the Planning Analytics platform without including these image...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Support Snowflake Session Output Format Configuration in JDBC Connection

Currently, Snowflake connectivity depends on user/account-level settings for DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT and TIMESTAMP_OUTPUT_FORMAT. This requires customers to manually update Snowflake user configurations before establishing a connection. Please consider...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Need an API to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one

As per this case TS022084372, we have got to know like there is no API exist currently to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one for LDAP/SAML user profiles. we need this API to troubleshoot/debug profiles issues over tenant scripts .
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality.

Feature Request Add administrative controls to restrict DataStage and Spark visibility and usage when they are installed only as supporting services for IKC Data Quality. Problem Statement The installation of IKC Data Quality requires DataStage an...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Delegated project access management for platform user administrators

Allow a user who holds the platform "Manage users" permission (i.e. can create users, assign them to user groups, and assign platform roles) to also manage collaborator access on existing projects — adding/removing project collaborators and assign...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Universal Advance Meta AI Trainer (UAMAIT)

IBM/DARPA Research Concept Draft Project Title: Universal Advance Meta AI Trainer (UAMAIT) Executive Summary The Universal Advance Meta AI Trainer (UAMAIT) is a proposed research platform for developing, evaluating, and governing advanced AI syste...

Allow Db2 connection without password

When creating Db2 connection, for example Db2 for Z or Db2 for Datastage, the password field is mandatory. This prevents creation of connections that use certificates for authentication (because those don't need password). Even if a random passwor...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
14 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

“Interstellar Communication, Probe Swarm & First Contact Information Network (IC-PSFCIN)”

🌌 Idea 11 — Deep Space / SETI + Future Expansion “Interstellar Communication, Probe Swarm & First Contact Information Network (IC-PSFCIN)” IBM / DARPA-Style Engineering Blueprint + Architecture + 150 Claims 🧠 SYSTEM OVERVIEW IC-PSFCIN is a dee...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Information Server Submitted

Capability of assigning artifacts and related items to the catalog is missing from Watsonx Data Intelligence MCP

The watsonx-data-intelligence-mcp-server currently does not provide a tool to perform governance actions such as assigning business terms or other governance artifacts to catalog assets. This enhancement proposes adding MCP capabilities that enabl...
18 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted