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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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VAULT Hashicorp : test connection and view data using a secret

When using a vault, you can not test the connection and 'view data' this is a regression when you enter connection directly without the VAULT
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Add/Confirm support for Windows 11 for IBM InfoSphere MDM Adv Edition Workbench 11.6.0.12

Microsoft ends its official support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. Currently IBM InfoSphere MDM Adv Edition Workbench 11.6.0.12 is supported on Windows 10 and Windows 7 officially. TD Bank is upgrading all Windows 10 computers to Windows 11. ...
4 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Show citations by relevance

Citations are shown to the user not based on their relevance. As a result, the first citation displayed may be irrelevant and only used to enrich the answer, while the main page containing all important information might appear last. Ideally, the ...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

DMC product if it can provide the monitor URL or dashboard thru the browser method.

Because the current DMC product not provide the monitor URL or dashboard thru the browser method. User hope to request an ticket or request an new feature or function to the DMC product development team. Hope product team can be adopt the user req...
4 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to use Custom Templates when creating additional tabs

Users are able to create a template in Planning Analytics Workspace that can be set as the default when creating new books or selected when creating "book from template". This is great, until the user has to add additional tabs. When the user does...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: Ability to minimize/maximize the Viewer independently

When you open Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel, the viewer is connected to this Excel session only. When you minimize Excel, you also minimize the Viewer window and you are unable to access it without maximizing Excel. Same problem happens w...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Sankey graph in PAW

The sankey graph is a powerful visualisation for demonstrating movements between datapoints, such as moving from Gross to Net Profit. It would be great to be able to represent this kind of graph in PAW for financial analysis.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted