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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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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 days 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...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Implementation of multi-tenancy within IBM Knowledge Catalog

context: CP4D ver >=5.2.2 with Manta OEM on AWS Rosa The goal is to allow different teams—for example, Business Users, development teams, and testing/QA teams—to work on segregated and logically separated areas of the Knowledge Catalog. Allowin...
about 6 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Submitted

Four configuration options are missing in Audio Settings panel

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Apply format to cube viewer based on MDX template parameters

When adding a member format within the format manager, when selecting from the member list any elements in the dimension/hierarchy selected are present, and so to are member calculations. What isn't available to select is an MDX Template Variable....
about 9 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Read-only for opening balances in data entry

It should be possible to lock opening balances for data entry in web. This idea is related to this idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/BACC-I-217 - please reconsider This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 11 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Proposal for a Proactive Platform Monitoring and Health Check System

We are currently encountering significant issues during our backup executions. We face database inconsistencies and version mismatches in the cpbr scripts, among other errors. Because these problems are only discovered during the backup process it...
about 11 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Import specification in web with at least same level of functionality as in classic

Data import: functions / operations, such as in CCR Classic for definition of import specification; Import spec should at least be as powerful as in Classic. At the same time there should be low barrier / self service access to import functionalit...
about 12 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

IC reconciliation with the possibility to show differences in transaction currency only

In Controller Web IC reconciliation should include a filter to show differences in transaction currency only. This should be available on company and group level. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 12 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted