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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,


Post your ideas

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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Dashboard visualisation top 10 should have an option to use olympic and dense ranking

Within a dashboard, if you limit a chart to show the top 10 it uses DENSE ranking to show the top 10. Dense ranking is the most uncommon type of ranking, Olympic ranking is far more common and the usual default. Take the following data set of Prod...
42 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Auto-Adjust Column Width in PAW Views

Currently, the default column width of a view in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) does not automatically adjust to the displayed data. Values and headers are often cut off or columns are unnecessarily wide, so users need to resize columns manual...
about 1 hour ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Cognos S3 Access: Transitioning from User-Based to IAM Role-Based Authentication, We are requesting us to provide some CLI commands to update on to cognos s3 - TS022880900

Currently, Cognos is configured using user-based permissions (access key ID and secret key) to access S3 storage. However, due to organizational constraints on user-based credentials across environments. It would be significantly more effective if...
7 minutes ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud Submitted

Improve collaboration with author and change history for shared assets

In shared instances, multiple users may create or modify agents, MCP servers, connections, and other resources. It would be useful to display basic authorship and change information for each asset, such as who created it, who last modified it, and...
about 4 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable tools to use member credentials through Microsoft Teams and the Orchestrate Agent API

Requested enhancement Enable tools to use member credentials when an agent is accessed through external channels. IBM watsonx Orchestrate should identify the requesting user and run tool actions on behalf of that user, using the credentials and pe...
about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable NPU and alternative AI accelerator support for IBM Bob on-premises Code Assistant.

Many enterprises are interested in running Code Assistant on-premises, but GPU infrastructure cost, availability, power consumption, and procurement constraints are major barriers. Supporting NPU and other alternative AI accelerators would allow c...

Certify Pack for SAP Applications for SAP S/4HANA 2025 (FPS01)

We are integrating IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.7.0.2) with SAP S/4HANA 2025 FPS01 on-premise using the ABAP Extract Stage and Pack for SAP Applications 8.1. IBM Support (case TS022982575) confirmed that SAP S/4HANA 2025 is not yet certified with ...
3 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage Submitted

Name and Company Filters for reporting out IBM Ideas

Why is it useful? We need to view and report out IBM Ideas generated from our company and by name. Would be extremely helpful to have the simple capability to filter out by company name, name of submitter and by product Who would benefit from it...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Submitted

Multi-Bucket Support for a Single Iceberg Catalog in watsonx

IBM Iceberg currently supports a one-to-one relationship between an S3 bucket and an Iceberg catalog. While this model is sufficient for simple single-bucket use cases, it creates a limitation for enterprise customers that require a single logical...
3 days ago in watsonx.data Submitted

Support for OpenAPI pre/post invoke plugins in Go Runtime

Enable support for OpenAPI pre-invoke and post-invoke plugins in the Go Runtime, allowing custom logic to be executed before requests are sent to backend services and after responses are received. This enhancement provides greater extensibility, c...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted