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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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Name Resolution on CP4D level

We have a CP4D Deplyoment on Openshift and want to deliver data into an Azure Datalake Store using a private Endpoint. The communication shall go via an Express Route. Actually we don not yet have a Hybrid DNS (no DNS forwarding from OnPrem) so th...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 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

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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 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...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Provide export to ppt as a option

Currently, PAW supports only the PDF export option. PPT export is supported only under the burst option. For example, if we create a summary dashboard that has no hierarchy, we cannot export it to PPT without using a workaround in Brusting. Provid...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics Submitted

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted

User bulk sync cron job need to exclude hand-picked LDAP group(s)

This idea is an extension of CPDIDEAS-I-2297. Now IBM delivered upfront user bulk sync available via cron job. Organization has few enterprise group(s) using for all users read access and integrated in CP4D IDP configuration. Need to exclude those...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Support to specify SAP client for OData Connection

SAP systems could contain different SAP clients. At the moment it's not possible to choose/specify a SAP client when using Odata Connector. It will always connect to the default client. So it's not possible to extract data from other SAP clients.
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

CP4D portal‑style customization

Introduce a comprehensive, portal‑style customization framework accessible to platform administrators. The objective is to empower administrators to tailor the appearance, content, and organization of product pages within the CP4D web interface, w...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Make is_sharing_properties configurable for both governed and non-governed catalogs

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D 5.3.1), the is_sharing_properties setting controls whether business metadata is shared across catalogs when identical data assets are published in multiple catalogs. Currently: This setting is editable only for non-...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted