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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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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 a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
2 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enhancement Proposal: SAML and OpenID Connect Integration for IIDR Access Server

This proposal suggests an enhancement to the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Access Server to support modern authentication and authorization mechanisms using SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).Currently, authentication mechanisms may rely ...
1 day ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture Submitted

Add “Submit & Close” Option for Questionnaires to Improve Workflow Completion

When completing a questionnaire, users currently only have the option to Submit, which leaves the questionnaire object open and in focus within the UI. Unlike other objects in the platform, there is no ability to submit and automatically return to...
9 minutes ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

SSH certificate for DB2 Purescale user authentication

Our customer has a DB2 Purescale environment configred, that was configured by default with ssh keys per product specification. But per Customer requirements, they need to replace ssh keys with ssh certificates, but DB2 does not currently test or ...
3 days ago in Db2 / pureScale Submitted

Brushing Improvements

Brushing is great step, but it could be improved in a few ways. We should be able to use items defined in data container properties. I would expect that I would be able to set parameters on items defined in the list properties. At the moment if th...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate Submitted

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group) When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still ...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Dynamic Navigation Target for Action Buttons (Book and Sheet name driven by TM1 Cube or Parameters)

Dear team, Description: Currently, Action Buttons in Planning Analytics Workspace only support static navigation targets for Book name and Sheet (Tab) name. It should be possible to define these targets dynamically at runtime by reading values fro...
about 13 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Always‑Available OpenPages: Zero‑Downtime Configuration Deployments

Enterprise customers increasingly expect high availability and uninterrupted access to governance, risk, and compliance systems. Currently, OpenPages configuration deployments result in temporary system unavailability, impacting business users dur...
about 17 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment Submitted

Officially integrate the "Sample to fire trigger using API Key" accelerator into the Cognos Analytics product

We're going to switch our SSO authentication method from "LDAP for Active Directory" to OpenID Connect. We're launching some burst batches using the trigger.sh script provided in the Cognos installation. This script requires a username and passwor...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted