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:


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,


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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,

  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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    Text2SQL: Add SQL dialect support for MonetDB, so generated queries will follow MonetDB rules avoiding PostgreSQL functions (default)

    Text2SQL is a feature highly dependent on the database vendor, as the SQL produced, unfortunately, is not fully compatible with various vendors.IBM Process Mining uses MonetDB as its reference relational database, and the ability to support this t...
    3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

    Agent Release Details Display

    Display key agent metadata on the frontend, including the internal name (not just the display name), release version, and release date. This way, users can easily identify which version of each agent is currently active across the Chat, Manage, an...
    2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

    Private context variables

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
    4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
    4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

    Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

    Allow security menu group rights to be imported

    Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
    22 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    For Korean language to be available and supported by the features of the product

    Supporting the Korean language in this product would be highly beneficial for Korean-speaking users, as it would provide a more accessible and personalized experience. It would enhance user engagement, allowing them to navigate the product more ea...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

    Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

    MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
    6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

    Cognos changes in Account Configuration summation rule.

    Hi Team, We would like to request your assistance in checking the feasibility of increasing the number of Summation Accounts (Summation Rules) available in Cognos. At the moment, each Cognos account is limited to three summation accounts (Rule1, R...
    7 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration
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    Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

    I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

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