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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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Enable streamlined and validated import and deployment of custom foundation models on watsonx.ai SaaS

Who would benefit from it? Straker plans to run Tiri, its own Gemma 3-based model, as a custom foundation model on watsonx.ai SaaS for SwiftBridge AI v2, Straker's IR translation solution. A streamlined and validated import and deployment flow wou...

Expose runtime observability metrics for custom foundation models on watsonx.ai SaaS

Who would benefit from it? Straker plans to run Tiri, its own Gemma 3-based model, as a custom foundation model on watsonx.ai SaaS for SwiftBridge AI v2, Straker's IR translation solution. This capability would also benefit other partners and ente...

Allow Replication of a Subset of Columns from Db2 for z/OS using Db2 Data Gate

Allow customers to define which columns of a Db2 for z/OS table should be replicated to Db2 Data Gate, reducing storage requirements, replication overhead, and unnecessary data exposure. Today, when a table is added to Db2 Data Gate using the SYSP...
11 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Category Import Summary Does Not Indicate Rejected Governance Artifacts

During category import, the process may complete successfully even when some governance artifacts (e.g., Data Classes) are skipped or rejected. While these issues may be recorded in the log file, the import summary provides no clear indication tha...
12 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

exportable connections and secrets

Make platform connections and secrets linked with their credentials exportable as related items. Make these structures equally importable across different clusters for promotions, building DR environments, etc.
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Provide MDE Governance Change Summary Report for Pre-Publish Review

Provide a UI-based report that compares metadata before and after an MDE run and summarizes all changes made to assets and columns. The report should include counts of governance and data quality attributes that were assigned, modified, suggested,...
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

MDE reporting capabilities in IKC

refer to case TS022643423
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Improve the resilience, scalability, observability, and self-recovery of the IKC internal messaging layer, including reassessment of RabbitMQ for high-volume Metadata Enrichment workloads.

IBM Knowledge Catalog uses RabbitMQ as part of its internal asynchronous processing architecture. In large Metadata Enrichment environments, messaging availability and consumption rates can become critical dependencies for the overall stability of...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Slider Control for Value Adjustment in Cube Viewer

Introduce a slider control in the Planning Analytics Workspace Cube Viewer to allow users to increase or decrease values interactively. Benefits: Faster what-if analysis More intuitive planning experience Reduced manual data entry Similar function...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow override of built-in BRNAME and BRADDR standardization rules

We are migrating standardization rules from IBM InfoSphere Information Server (IIS) to Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) DataStage NextGen. During the migration, our customized Brazilian standardization rules BRNAME and BRADDR cannot be imported because C...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted