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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  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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    Enable add external databases in DMC bundled in CP4D

    DMC console bundled with CP4D is capable monitor only DB2 instances deployed inside CP4D. It will be helpfull enable usersconnect also databases ouside of CP4D. For example in case you have deployed Cognos as part of CP4D but your databases are ex...
    28 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

    Connecting watsonx.data to Oracle using tnsnamens.ora

    Develop a possibility to connect watsonx.data to Oracle database using the tnsnames.ora instead of hostname and password.
    26 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

    Side-by-Side Content Editing in UI – CUG2026

    Enable working with multiple contents in parallel using side-by-side windows with copy/paste support.
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Enable secure support for custom Hugging Face models requiring trust_remote_code=True in watsonx.ai BYOM workflows

    I am working on deploying a state-of-the-art vision-language model (VLM) via Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in watsonx.ai Runtime (WML), specifically using the vLLM-based inference runtime. The model delivers significantly improved accuracy for OCR a...
    4 days ago in Watson Machine Learning / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Support Logout Without Mandatory HTTP DELETE in Cognos

    The HTTP DELETE method is mandatory for Cognos session termination. There is no supported configuration or override within Cognos to: Replace DELETE with POST/PUT Skip DELETE Perform a redirect‑only logout without issuing DELETE
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

    Enable Table/Schema/Database-Level Filtering When Searching Database Columns in Custom Attribute Relationships

    Hello, In IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC), we have configured custom attributes with relationships addressing database columns to define primary data source references. However, due to the scale of our organization, the current dropdown ...
    4 days ago in Information Server  / Governance 0 Submitted

    Integrate Action Widgets for Dashboards Accelerator into the core product - CUG2026

    The "Button and Dropdown Action Widgets for Dashboards" Accelerator by IBM is most useful. It is 5 years old and still unofficially supported by IBM. Please do the step to fully integrate it into the core product, so that customers can rely on fut...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    Open measure filter search reference for none-date-attributes - CUG2026

    The relative data calender is a very useful functionality. A minor enhancement would open up much more potential for this feature. If you would be able to use none-date-attribute as a search reference for measures then you wouldn't stick to (relat...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Select totals levels for nested crosstabs in Dashboards - CUG2026

    Crosstabs in Dashboards often need nested row categories for grouping and sorting purposes. But often neither none totals or all totals are appropriate. So you should be able to select which totals levels you want to display. Most important is the...
    4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

    parent folder has Full Control access, but one of its subfolders has restricted inherited permissions or limited View/Edit access

    Within the "Shared/ABC" location, the user has "Full Control" access at the parent folder level. However, one of the subfolders inherits permissions but shows “View & Edit” access only. When the user attempts to grant Full Control access to an...
    4 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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