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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    Improve DSNU571I message to identify FlashCopy backup cleanup

    Update Db2 for z/OS message DSNU571I so it identifies when FlashCopy SYSCOPY records are deleted. The current wording refers only to LOCALSITE or RECOVERYSITE, which can incorrectly suggest that a RECOVERYSITE backup was removed when the records a...
    about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Request to Improve Controller Excel Add-in Resilience Against Third-Party Excel Add-ins

    Dear IBM Development Team, We would like to submit a Request for Enhancement regarding the sensitivity of the IBM Controller Excel Add-in to other Excel add-ins installed in the same environment. During recent investigations, we discovered that th...
    about 23 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

    Enable Real Time Statistics to be written while REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE is running

    When a REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility is running, RTS collection for the affected object can be interrupted until the utility completes. For large tablespaces and indexes, online REORGs may run for many hours or even days, resulting in si...
    11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Model Assessment Eval - Similar to Risk Assessment Eval or Control Assessment Eval, there should be a Model Assessment Eval

    when annual Model Assessments are done similar to Risk Assessment Eval or Control Assessment Eval, where a snapshot is captured at completion, there should also be a Model Assessment Eval.  Presently is is not available in OpenPages.
    36 minutes ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Submitted

    I'm from Liberty Mutual group - When pulling exports into Fast Mapps (xls/ csv), the record IDs should pull out as a hyper link

    This is extremely useful when sharing data with Risk Owners, Control Owners, RCSA Owners etc .... providing them with a hyper link in the data reports allows them to directly go to the record(s) as make updates as needed.  Not having this fun...
    41 minutes ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Submitted

    We want to extract the names and scheduled times of all jobs across every CP4D project.

    Currently, if we have 500 projects with 20 jobs each, the existing solution requires us to run the command 500 times, manually changing the project name each time. Instead of running this iteratively, we need a way to retrieve all these job detail...
    about 4 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    RATE-FAIR — Large-load tariff fairness agent preventing residential cost-shifting

    Problem: FERC's June 2026 orders force utilities to prove their existing pricing structures can accommodate massive data centers or reform them, and state commissions are already fighting the follow-on question: the Virginia State Corporation Comm...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    GRID-PATH — Interconnection readiness agent for large loads

    Problem: More than 2,600 GW of interconnection requests sit in U.S. queues — over double the country's installed generation capacity — and connecting a data center takes nearly five years on average, versus 18–24 months to build one. FERC's June 1...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    ASSET-ORACLE — Transformer and substation health agent with months-ahead failure prediction

    Problem: Utilities collect asset-health data — temperature, vibration, dissolved-gas analysis — but never correlate it with weather or load patterns, so transformer and substation failures arrive as emergencies. Meanwhile power plants using predic...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

    IGNITION-SENTINEL — Wildfire ignition-risk sensing agent for distribution grids

    Problem: Wildfires ignited by electric grid infrastructure are no longer a California-only story. NERC's April 2026 draft wildfire report lays out a roadmap pushing toward expanding mandatory vegetation management to 100–199 kV transmission lines ...
    about 6 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

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