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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 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

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads

Uploading images using OLM Utilities to an ECR image in AWS fails due to rate limiting defaults. We need a method to reduce API calls to slow image uploads. Can we add a flag to slow the number of concurrent image uploads to ensure we don't exceed...
9 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Granular Access Control for Project Assets

Implementation of granular, asset‑level access definitions within projects. This enhancement should allow administrators to individually manage permissions for each type of asset—such as connections, datasets, notebooks, tasks, flows, pipelines, a...
20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Expand OLM Utility to include private image registry that is usable as image mirror.

Eases software installation process and makes for a better user experience.
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

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

Central location for cpd-cli-workspace directory and logging of the cpd-cli

When running the cpd-cli command a "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created in the current working directory. Looking for an environmental variable that can be used to define where the "cpd-cli-workspace" directory is created when running the cpd-...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Support of OpenShift 4.20 by CP4D/Software Hub 5.2.x

The client currently has Software Hub 5.2.2 deployed. It follows Support Cycle-2 lifecycle policy which means that it will be fully support for at least 2 years after its release (until October 2027): https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7235811...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 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

Backup/restore using Google Cloud Storage

The possibility to define a Google Cloud Storage as a target for the backup (in similar way like I can use today a S3 compatible storage). In this moment is not certified, but a lot of customer use GCS as standard storage for his backup.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release