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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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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...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

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...

IBM Software Hub – Expand cpd-cli OADP Online Backup Capability to Store Backups (Metadata + Volumes) Outside OCP Cluster / ODF Storage

Summary: We are requesting a product enhancement for IBM Software Hub to expand the cpd-cli OADP online backup capability so that backups — including both metadata and volume data — can be stored outside the OpenShift cluster / ODF storage, rather...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Storage volumes: show actual used space (not only allocated) and allow PVC expansion from the platform UI

As a platform administrator you can use the Total resource usage → Volumes page to keep storage under control. The table lists every PVC with its provisioned capacity ("PVC size"), phase, service, service instance and access mode, but it only show...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

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...

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...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 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...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 1 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...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 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,...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted