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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).


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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High Availability for Db2 Tuning Services

Db2 Tuning services is currently a standalone started task. We will be integrating Tuning Services into a production operational system, to provide guardrails for AI generated queries against operational data stores. As it will form part of an ope...
3 days ago in DB2 Accessories Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Implementation of WxO Guardrails for workflow

Implementation of the guardrail for workflow, should be implemented using the ADK as a pre‑invoke plug‑in; it cannot be configured through the IBM console UI. Currently there is no documentation or any clear instruction to guide developer to know ...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

IBM CP4D Users statistics reporting

Currently in CP4D user admin session has very limited user CP4D usage statistics - previous session and just a green color showing user active.
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Support for Multiple URLs for Cloud PAK for Data

Currently only one "main" URL is supported for Cloud PAK for data. We want to give an external partner access to cloud pak for Data, because this partner should develop for us. To be able to expose cloud pak for data to the web we have to do three...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

Enhancement For Chore Security to Allow Parameter Editing Without Process Modification

Current Feature: In IBM Planning Analytics, the existing administrative chore security roles typically offer two main permission levels with respect to chores: Read: Allows users to view chore details but not make any changes. None: No access to t...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi-Report Email Export in Reporting – CUG2026

Send multiple reports in a single email without requiring Event Agent.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted