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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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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,

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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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Add support for SAP HANA technology in OpenLineage Events

While scanning OpenLineage event JSON that includes SAP HANA assets, Manta successfully generates lineage but incorrectly classifies SAP HANA tables as generic OpenLineage (OL) nodes instead of database table nodes. This results in: Incorrect visu...
32 minutes ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

SQLDI Install Enhancements

The SQLDI install process needs to be enhanced to cater for separation of duty responsibilities, and it must not make assumptions about the config it is being installed in to. The following enhancements are required: 1. The install currently check...
about 1 hour ago in IBM SQL Data Insights 0 Submitted

Default value for a field gets removed after each upgrade.

Is it possible to implement a mechanism in the upgrade process that compares the target environment’s configuration with the upgrade package to identify any deviations from the out-of-the-box configuration? If differences are detected, the package...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted

Reduce size of pop-up that informs when a process is running or make movable

When running a process, the pop-up that appears (to inform user the process is still running and remains in position) often blocks areas of screen requiring accessibility. the pop-up can be closed but then the user loses visibility of process stil...
about 7 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Rich Text / Partial Cell Formatting Within a Single Cell in PAW Cube Views and Explorations

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Product Team, Summary In current versions of IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) (up to 2.1.18 / 3.1.5 as of March 2026), formatting in Cube Views / Explorations is limited to the entire cell value. Supported formatt...
about 16 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Make scroll cursors more consistent when lists/collections are involved

This RFE is for removing the protection to disable collection types in scroll cursor at the prepare phase, and fail only at runtime if the cursor retrieves a row greater than row limit.
about 19 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Base64 encoded pictures in PAW view

Dear community! Would it be possible to display small product images instead of text cells in the PAW view? Can this also be made dynamic? Images can be stored in books in Base64 format. Would it be possible to display the image defined in the cel...
about 21 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Chat to generate files / documents such as PDF or CSV OOTB

Today the OOTB chat can only generate txt, HTML or md files.
about 21 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Change of Python library through a parameter and not through a symbolic link

At the present time, it is not possible to configure the use of a specific Python library into Safer Payments. The Python library in use is the one referenced in the internal configuration. The currently solution proposed to change of Python libra...
about 22 hours ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Enable Hyperlink Expression and JavaScript Click Event Support for Standard Visualizations

Currently in IBM Cognos Analytics Reports, standard visualisations such as Bar Charts and others do not support hyperlink expressions directly on chart elements. Additionally, the standard visualisation framework does not expose click event handli...
about 23 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted