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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,


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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,

  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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Provide a Consistent Way to Clear Fields to Null/Empty Across All Field Types

Provide a consistent and supported mechanism in IBM OpenPages calculations and field operations to clear a field value and set it to null/empty across all supported field types, including Text, Enumeration, and Date fields. Currently, the behavior...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

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

Advanced Governance with Alerting

Business Requirement While IBM watsonx.data intelligence provides foundational governance, stewardship, workflow, and remediation capabilities, many critical governance processes still require manual intervention, custom integrations, or external ...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Improve Search Functionality

Business Requirement We request an enhancement to the search capabilities within the IBM watsonx.data Intelligence Catalogue to improve data discovery through business-oriented metadata. Currently, catalogue searches primarily rely on physical or ...
about 2 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Ability to Report Erratic Feedback from View AI Insights screen

There are AI Governance requirements mandating that end users report any erratic or unexpected behaviour observed when using AI functionality. This capability is currently missing from the View AI Insights screen. A reporting link should be provid...
about 15 hours ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Submitted

Change the default search scope in the PAX Set editor

In the PAX Set editor, the default serach scope is "Search current set only". Most of the times our users use the setting "Search with descendants". There is no way (to our knowledge) to change the default scope here. It would be useful to have a ...
about 16 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to Include Multiple URLs

Currently the "Link" display type fields only allow/cater for 1 url to be inserted. We suggest the ability to include multiple URLs in a single field.
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Submitted

Better OpenPages Telemetry

Enhance OpenPages telemetry to provide deeper visibility into application usage, batch/API activity, database health, and server performance. The goal is to identify anomalies earlier and provide actionable data for faster troubleshooting and RCA ...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

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...
3 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