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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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,

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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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    PAW Enhancement: Proactive Notifications for Updates and Brief Disconnects

    Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, Based on support ticket [Insert Ticket ID], where the team endorsed logging this as an enhancement, I'd like to propose better communication during PAW updates or temporary API disruptions. Users often see alarmin...
    23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Oracle NetSuite connector

    Customers have a growing amount of ERP and ERP vendors do not like applications to connect to the back end data source. Customer is requesting for the ability to connect to Oracle NetSuite through API or other means. Once the connector is availabl...
    about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Needs more information

    Add time option for expensive trace

    I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Object Commenting - Reply To

    I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    Synchronize PAW user groups in Planning Analytics databases automatically or in a process

    Currently when adding a user to an existing security group in Planning Analytics Workspace, we have to go into our Planning Analytics database and synchronize the user group so that the security update is reflected in the database. It would be hel...
    3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

    According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
    about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

    Request block level Informix cluster replication

    Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

    To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
    3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration
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    Bursting reports with email notification

    Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
    about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 10 Planned for future release

    Select a delivery method while running a report with full interactivity

    When running an ad hoc report from the Cognos portal, there is a noticeable difference between full interactivity mode and classic mode. The option to select a delivery method is only available in classic mode, meaning users cannot send the report...
    24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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