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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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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.

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PII removal from logs/traces/analytics

Enable configurable PII redaction where users can select which types of PII (e.g., emails, phone numbers, IDs) to detect and redact. Support masking styles, custom patterns, role-based visibility, and audit logs for compliance.
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

wxO on AWS supports private path using AWS PrivateLink

Problem statement What is AWS PrivateLink : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/what-is-privatelink.html Problem to solve: Customers who are hosted on AWS may require private paths to connect their WxO instance on AWS to their on-pr...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Rendering of rich media: external agents to render wxO-native UI widgets (tables, forms, file upload)

[delivered in flows, needed for all tool interactions, including external agents] Polished visual elements with possible updates on Carbon components for Agentic AI - Giving users the agency to control the settings of the conversational interface....
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Unavailability of ErrorMessage in ZOS Connect

We are creating webservices off of ADABAS using DVM and exposing those using ZOS Connect. My aim is to throw appropriate http error code as the case maybe when an error is encountered. I believe there is no way to do it and we have to interpret th...
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 12 Support for SPSS 18.5

My client, diamond account in Turkiye and one of the greatest banks, is using DB2 12 which has EOS date at the end of 2025. However, they are unable to use it with SPSS 18.5 as DB2 12 is not supported. They are unable to create critical reports us...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

"reinitialization" of HADR if takeover is not possible and standby being ROS

Hi, We recently faced an issue in one of the tablespace in our database on our standby auxiliary database. Our reporting application was connected to this standby database. PMR checked and they suggested that there are only two possibilities which...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

[Copy] Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 3 years ago in Optim 0 Future consideration

Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Ability to add acquired balance sheet and net result in shareholdings

Normally when acquiring a business combination there's an acquired balance sheet needed for cash flow purposes and also eliminating the net result before the acquisition date if the acquired company reports YTD values. Today acquired balance sheet...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration