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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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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    Ability to use SystemModstamp as an Offset in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Origin with PK Chunking

    Please support using systemModstamp as an offset in the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 origin to be used with PK chunking.
    4 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights...
    4 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    4 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

    Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
    5 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

    The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

    As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
    5 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

    If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
    21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

    Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

    Custom Enrichment Objective

    Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
    about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

    Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

    We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
    2 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Allow security menu group rights to be imported

    Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
    22 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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