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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    Configure the "My Tasks" tab from the OpenPages Dashboards

    Allow for the "My Tasks" on the OpenPages dashboard to be configurable to allow admins to include values that are relevant to their organizations such as dates when workflows enter a certain stage.
    about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    Call REST API triggered from DB

    Currently we use external script to call APIs on data in DB and write back the result. Instead of using external script (Python, R, Node JS) to take data from the DB and call REST API and then write back the result to DB, it would be a great impro...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 3 Planned for future release

    Have the DB2 CLP Support Database Names Greater Than 8 Characters

    The DB2 CLP does not recognize database names or aliases that are greater than 8 characters. Please enhance it to support longer database names.
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

    Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

    Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

    Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
    5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 1 Under review

    Improve Error Handling and User Feedback for Context Window Exceedance and vLLM Failures

    Description Currently, when users attempt to submit requests that exceed the model’s maximum context length or encounter vLLM-related errors, the system behaves in two problematic ways: UI Behavior: The UI accepts input that exceeds the supported ...
    5 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Needs more information

    Instead of 504 errors, concise errors should be surfaced to the user, instead of having to dig through CP4D/vLLM logs

    Instead of 504 errors, if it's something surfaced from vLLM like: 2025-08-22T00:41:31.362506975Z ERROR 08-22 00:41:31 [serving_chat.py:200] ValueError: This model's maximum context length is 128000 tokens. However, you requested 844373 tokens (840...
    5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Customize the UI screen to show the category hierarchy for business terms

    How should it work? When we access the business terms UI, we currently see the direct parent (sub-category) for each business term. We would like to add a section that displays the super parent (top-level category) as well. Although we can view th...
    5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

    Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

    Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Business Analytics Enterprise/Analytics Content Hub 1 Future consideration

    Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection.

    Enable the ability to select data assets in the CP4D project based on the chosen connection. Currently, there is no direct way to manage data assets by filtering them through a specific connection. Adding this feature would provide users with more...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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