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.

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    Enable the storage and retrieval of VIEW-Formats in native (legacy) and MDX-Views in Explorations in PAfE and PAW

    In TM1 Server Explorer/Cube Viewer a user, modeler or administrator was capable of saving and retrieving individual view-formats per view, independent of the format assigned in the last dimension of the cube. This format was stored in the ID 375 o...
    9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

    The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

    Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

    Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

    DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

    Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
    8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

    Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

    Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
    almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

    Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

    In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
    6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release
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    Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

    1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

    Private context variables

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
    12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
    12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    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...
    12 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

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