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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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.

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    Backup and restore IBM Cloud Pak with Kasten

    Hello, We are using Kasten (VEEAM) to backup and restore all of our apps on Openshift and we would like to use it also for IBM Cloud Pak (for data, for automation, for integration, ...). Regards.
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

    When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
    almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

    Using the ADDI Dataset flow to enable tracing of correspondence between input and output files of an assembler program

    In the case of assembler programs, it is not possible to identify the relationship of the data set flow taking into account the input and output files. I would like to be able to do this.
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

    Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

    The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

    The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Allow click+drag functionality to highlight cells

    In Contributor our users were accustomed to being able to left click a cell and drag their mouse to select a large group of cells at once. In PAW they are not able to do this. The option does exist to Left Click to select a cell and then Shift + L...
    2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    SFTP processor does not fetch new files

    The issue manifests in such a way that the SFTP processor processes only some files, while other files are not processed at all. The root cause is that the StreamSets engineering team implemented the SFTP processor using offsets instead of file na...
    2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Add Connections information as a metric into active Nginx pods and update HPA configuration to scale based on connections, not CPU.

    On December 2nd, 2025 when Digital traffic was diverted entirely to Central cluster, we noticed intermittent spikes in response times. we noticed internal connections failing (ie 404 errors from Redis) and with joint product team debugging determi...
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    APPLCOMPAT use reporting to build a upgrade plan

    APPLCOMPAT for packages can be queried from the catalog, but this doesn't mean that the thread runs at that level. Since the introduction of APPLCOMPAT, no old values have been deprecated or removed. However, it seems normal that this will happen ...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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