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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).


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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 NPU and alternative AI accelerator support for IBM Bob on-premises Code Assistant.

Many enterprises are interested in running Code Assistant on-premises, but GPU infrastructure cost, availability, power consumption, and procurement constraints are major barriers. Supporting NPU and other alternative AI accelerators would allow c...

Enable Address Verification in Quality Stage

We have a customer that use Watsonx.Data Ingeligence and use Data Quality, they preparing the data to IKC and need to use Address Verification. It's very important and the high value for them this stage to complete the operation.. They have a high...

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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.,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

AVRO messages should have an AVRO response for consistency with the rest of formats.

All the response formats to incoming messages in MCI,KMI, etc. are in the same as the input, so xml will be responded as xml, json will respond json, and so on except AVRO. For AVRO incoming messages the response provided by Safer Payments is XML ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0

Mutual TLS/SSL for the AVRO Schema Registry Connection

Currently, the connection to the AVRO Schema Registry supports SSL/TLS connection but not mutual, using client certificates or other ways to authenticate the client system. It should be possible, the same way it is for the rest of connections, MCI...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

RDI File - Final State

Since our configuration is set to "Every Minute," a new RDI output file is created in the delivery path, and Safer Payments continues appending statement data to that same file for up to one minute before it is closed and finalized. This means: - ...
19 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration