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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    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...
    2 months 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 ...
    2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

    Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
    2 months 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...
    2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

    IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses

    IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses like business terms. Candidate, Approved and Deprecated. [edit] And these statuses should reflect also to IKC Data Mart it is only about lifecycle status property, but the solution would be to...
    10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4

    Show sample data from assets deployed in the catalogue in a custom order

    Table data in a database is added to by thousands to tens of thousands of new records every day and in some cases columns. In this case, it would be very helpful for Data Consumer to have sample data of the most recent data to judge the data quali...
    10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

    Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

    When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
    10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

    Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

    We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Performance enhancement for admintabinfo

    For example, the customer wants to get the name list for tables which are in load pending status, he may issue a SQL statement "select tabschema,tabname from sysibmadm.admintabinfo where load_status='PENDING'", the statement will execute for a ver...
    about 10 years ago in Db2 2 Under review

    3000 data item restriction in dashboard visualisations

    I see reference in the documentation for dashboards that dashboards will only visualize up to 3000 data points regardless of the visualization type. Is there any way to extend this value as this limitation makes dashboarding against data prohibiti...
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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