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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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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 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.,...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

Custom widgets on BAI for saving column sorting

Despite being able to select the order of the columns for a report, this sorting is not saved and the customers need to redo it every time they need to check the report. Having a way to save this sorting would help the customers to just consume th...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Create an option to configure the user timezone

BAI uses the customer device timezone. However, when working integrated with BAW it seems that this timezone configuration is lost on BAI, therefore having a way to set this on the product end would benefit customers that can't change their device...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

WCA:Latest versions of WCA should be supported on Aqua stack(Eclipse 4.31(2024_03)

The latest versions of WCA does not support the Aqua Eclipse version used by many IBM products. Eclipse 4.31 is considered Long Term Support, via the IBM Eclipse SDK and Aqua teams, and the latest WCA version should provide support for this versio...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

WCA Plugin for CP4D Jupyter notebooks

Customers who have CP4D and want WCA to inject Python directly into their Jupytper notebooks.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Not under consideration

The WCA chat should let the user up/down-arrow to cycle through recent input text, rather than having to scroll/copy/scroll/paste

Useful when experimenting to find a better prompt, because simpler for user than scrolling back to find the input they want to repeat or paste/edit to do something slightly different
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration

In Workflow Center, the project should support branching into multiple parallel development streams, with the capability to merge those branches back into a single consolidated project.

In a single project, multiple developers may work concurrently, which requires support for parallel development. This also necessitates a mechanism to merge individual developments into a unified project. At present, this capability is not available.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Integration with slack

WCA is useful outside the vscode, and not all developers using vscode. having an integration with slack or as independent plugin. It would be great
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

WCA@IBM Visual Studio Code extension should support web version

If I launch the extension in Visual Studio Code desktop, it works perfectly.But when I tried to launch it in the Dev Spaces / Che-Code ( Visual Studio Code downstream projects ), I faced some issues. First, the login URL is a bit different. This i...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Needs more information