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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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Cloud Pak for Data

Introduce workflow-based approval for Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations when governance workflows are enabled.

Currently, governance workflows are triggered for glossary term creation through bulk import, requiring review and approval before changes become effective. However, Category Delete and Cascade Delete operations are executed immediately after conf...
about 23 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

CP4D Route changes are not automatically getting propagated to DB2_BEDROCK_ROUTE for db2oltp instance

CP4D Route changes are not automatically getting propagated to DB2_BEDROCK_ROUTE for db2oltp instance - TS022560656
about 24 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Bedrock Submitted

Query migration from existing query processor to IBM Query browser

TSYS/FIS is integrating its infrastructure platform to IBM bases services. The existing query browser saves client queries where clients can execute the queries anytime to get the data from the existing datalake. After migrating to IBM platforms t...
about 21 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 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...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 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...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

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...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 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...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 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...
7 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted