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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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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 automatic TT tagging for Power BI fields that contain expressions.

Description Power BI fields containing transformation logic (e.g., DAX measures, calculated columns) are not currently tagged with the Transformation (TT) indicator in Manta lineage diagrams, despite expressions being captured and visible. Enhance...
about 7 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Add STT/TTS trace and log visibility in WatsonX Orchestrate voice channel

When using the voice (SIP) channel in WatsonX Orchestrate, there is currently no way to inspect what the STT engine transcribed from the user's audio input, nor what text was passed to the TTS engine for synthesis. This creates a significant obser...
about 11 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

The current Audio Settings panel lacks the granularity required for production-grade voice deployments. Four configuration options are missing — covering pre-hold message control, timing, on-hold music, and first-turn suppression — preventing delivery of a polished SIP voice experience during an active client PoC.

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
about 9 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform Submitted

Enhance DB2 LE Recoverabilty

This issue is related to a recent IBM case. Under certain situations and most likely related to a rare timing issue, the LE environment under which a DB2 stored procedure or function runs could become corrupted due to a possible storage overlay of...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Remote Development Integration with IBM Bob IDE

Executive Summary Request for official integration between IBM Bob IDE and IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to enable seamless remote development workflows. Currently, the Microsoft Remote-SSH extension blocks connectivity when using IBM Bob (a VS Co...
1 day ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System Submitted

Enable additional user data points to be captured via the Agent Builder web chat

Within watsonx Assistant and Orchestrate's Assistant Builder web chat, the ability to capture the following 6 data points are available to capture about the end user: Timezone Language User ID Browser Info IP Address OS I see tha...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable user to switch between secure/unsecure experience of the same embedded web chat

This request is to enable a user to switch back and forth between the secured and unsecured embedded web chat experience. Essentially, this would enable the user to utilize the web chat in an anonymous manner at first, and then they could have the...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add parameter to chat that keeps track of how many seconds the conversation has lasted

This exists in the Assistant Builder embedded web chat where an event with the type of SessionExpired is triggered and we can listen for this as part of our session timeout flow. In the documentation (URL #1 & URL #2 & URL #3), I was unabl...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Integration with SAS Solution

SAS is a software platform that can be used as a data source to feed data to watsonx.data. Typically connections are made to SAS using JDBC. The request here is to either create a native connector to SAS or a generic connector that allows to use J...
1 day ago in watsonx.data Submitted