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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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IP filtering for MCSP IAM API exchange with UI support to manage allowed IPs per account - Watsonx Data Intelligence AWS SaaS

MCSP IAM API exchange should support IP-based access filtering to enhance security for API access. Customers should be able to define and manage an allowlist of trusted source IP addresses for each account through a UI. When an API request is rece...

Enable DPH to Register, Search, Share, and Subscribe to Unstructured Data and Its Vectorized Representation

Provide a capability in DPH to register both: Original unstructured data stored in an S3-compatible Object Storage Processed/vectorized unstructured data stored in Milvus after parsing, chunking, and embedding Both types of unstructured data shoul...

Catalog asset export should not be limited to the UI "items per page" - or then you should allow way bigger maximum instead of 100

We have several 'registers' modelled as custom assets in the catalog. Anyone who wishes to export the register, be it application register or data asset register can not do it at one go, because the UI has max limit of 100 items, and the "export" ...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Enhance Data Product Discovery and Preview Experience

Our customer requests enhancements to the Data Product Hub user experience in the following areas: Sorting by number of views In addition to the currently supported sorting by product registration date/time, the customer would like to sort data pr...

When doing IKC Text2SQL, if no data sources are defined, create a clear message that an asset must be added to the project for text2sql to work

When doing IKC Text2SQL, if no data sources are defined, create a clear message that an asset must be added to the project. Today we get an error  "Please ensure the container is onboarded...". See the screen shot.  

The LSF web service submits jobs to multiple clusters in a round-robin fashion.

Combine all clusters into one logical supercluster.
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other Under review

Synchronous bstage out to guarantee data readiness for downstream jobs

Currently, bstage out returns successfully after the transfer jobs have been submitted in DMD. However, in reality, the transfer jobs may take a significant amount of time to complete. The downstream job flow, meanwhile, assumes that the data is r...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management Under review

Db2 should have a logo as other database products do e.g. Postgres, MongoDb etc

when writing and presenting information in a data flow OR documentation it will be helpful if there was a logo to represent Db2. Most other database products have logos which are instantly recognisable.
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

DB2 VTAM to TCP change on location length

Hi team, We are doing testing on DB2 ZOS VTAM to TCP convert. We have some DB2 subsystem with longer than 8 char. to setup DB2 IPNAME didn't raise anything, but when we try to query it, we can not use the existing location name, but have to define...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Workflow dashboard

In version 11.5, the product includes an out-of-the-box, open-source dashboard that allows users to search for items across workflows based on their access permissions and navigate directly to the relevant item. Currently, an equivalent dashboard ...
13 days ago in Product Master Under review