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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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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.

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Request for a plugin to address the lockout issue. To be implemented included in FP3 Patch delivery

This new RFE has been requested by the IBM Dev Team. Reference https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPCS-I-1113__;!!Jkho33Y!jDQwS2syU1P26kiq9Pqd2MGED4qxhSXCiN4gZsyyO2Z-zpfFnTNMScAaj75qeJFe4dspTQVNgkf4mZJ0D2L83g$ "For plugin lock...
3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Customizable ManagementHosts Resource group

I would like to request that IBM consider adding enhanced flexibility to the Multicluster SMC software by allowing the Management resource group to be customizable. Specifically, to have the ability to add a new resource group in addition to the s...
4 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

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

Implement Task Response limit in Spectrum Symphony

I would like to request a feature enhancement for Spectrum Symphony which would allow to implement a Task Response limit. If the Task Response is above the defined limit then either Symphony should fail the task OR not return the Task response rat...
12 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

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...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
18 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Symphony Host Factory leverages OpenShift/Kubernetes capacities

Requesting support for a Symphony cluster deployed on-premise (existing standalone hosts) to use Host Factory to scale out to OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or in public cloud). It is our understanding that this is not supported by the cur...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

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...
10 months 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.
10 months 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
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Not under consideration