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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
14 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Add Option to Preserve ReAct Reasoning ("Thought") in Context

Problem When using ReAct-style agents in multi-agent configurations, the system removes "Thought:" portions from responses before storing them in context. This causes format inconsistency and behavior instability. Current Behavior Child agents out...
about 19 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Support Oracle lineage extraction in Data Guard read-only environments without requiring primary database access

DESCRIPTION Many enterprise Oracle environments use Oracle Data Guard architectures where governance and metadata tools are allowed to access only read-only standby databases, while direct access to production primary databases is restricted. Curr...
3 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Native Ab Initio Connector for IBM watsonx.data

Develop a native and officially supported connector that enables Ab Initio to read data from and ingest data into IBM watsonx.data, a native connector should simplify data exchange between both platforms and support: Ingesting data into Apache Ice...
5 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Support for JSON/BSON data types on Informix 4GL 7.51

Due the easy to use, and its performance, Informix 4GL is a key componente for batch processing. Unfortunatelly the lack of support for BSON/JSON datatypes forces us to use ocal routines to parse large and complex JSON data.
4 days ago in Informix / Informix Client Products Submitted

Add Native Watermarking to Cognos Analytics for Content Protection and User Accountability

IBM Cognos Analytics currently lacks native watermarking functionality, creating significant challenges for organizations that need to protect confidential reports and dashboards from unauthorized distribution. Current Impact: a) Security Risk: No...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Add DBNAME (Database/Domain) Visibility for Db2 for z/OS Assets on IBM Knowledge Catalog

Large Db2 for z/OS environments commonly use DBNAME as the primary logical structure to organize transactional systems, business domains, and data ownership boundaries. Today, IBM Knowledge Catalog imports Db2 for z/OS assets without exposing the ...
6 days ago in Knowledge Catalog Future consideration

Provide more granularity writing to the db2opstats.log

Currently the db2opstats log is either ON or OFF via the registry variable DB2_OPTSTATS_LOG. The suggestion is to add granularity options 1-4 similar to the same options for the db2diag.log . This would allow users some level of control on the amo...
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Support for persistent global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables in Db2 Data Gate for Db2 for z/OS to Db2 LUW topologies

In Db2 Data Gate topologies that replicate data from Db2 for z/OS to Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows (LUW), there is currently a functional limitation in which global (non-partitioned) indexes on partitioned tables are not supported, as documente...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Enable support for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a data source for Data Lineage import in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC).

IBM Db2 Warehouse is a critical data platform used by many organizations for analytical workloads, reporting, and business insights. However, it is currently not supported for Data Lineage import in IKC, which creates a significant visibility gap ...
26 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted