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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.

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Improving the saved search functionality in Watson Discovery Content Miner to better support usability for larger user groups

Background: In our organization, we anticipate that approximately 100 users will be actively actively working with the Watson Discovery Content Mining application. Each user is expected to create and maintain around 2 saved searches, resulting in ...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted

Allow organizations to create and publish "interest-only" data products that can collect subscriptions or demand signals without consuming Data Product Hub RU entitlements.

My customer intends to deploy DPH with a product-led approach to data product development. Before investing resources to build data pipelines, integrations, governance controls, and ongoing operational support, they first want to understand whethe...
22 days ago in Data Product Hub 0 Submitted

API for IBM watsonx Data Intelligence

Create a Project Intelligence API that enables automated, governed, and metadata‑aware project creation within IBM watsonx.data, aligned with IBM’s data fabric, governance, and AI‑ready architecture. This API acts as a single control plane to onbo...
4 months ago in Data Product Hub 2 Needs more information

Increase document size limit for WD

Currently maximum document size, which can be processed by WD for CP4D is 32Mb. It is very small size limit considering any document which may have embedded images can be much larger. Even WEX limits were higher (up to 128Mb for WEX AC). Please co...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

User- and department-level RU consumption reporting for watsonx.data intelligence

Currently, consumption reporting for watsonx.data intelligence is available primarily at the product level. Customers cannot easily determine which users, teams, departments, or business units are driving Resource Unit (RU) consumption. Introduce ...
about 2 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding - Option to choose the documents that I want to annotate

The SDU only presents 40 documents to annotate in the drop-down list and often, there are documents that we need to annotate and do not appear in the list due to this limitation. The suggestion is that instead of having a list of 40 documents to a...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Planned for future release

Column-level filtering by Data Consumer on DPH UI

Hi Team, we have a high priority request from Customer to provide the flexibility to Data Consumer to do Column-level filtering of Data Product and then subscribe on those data at the DPH UI. I have stated the example scenario below: Data Publishe...
over 1 year ago in Data Product Hub 1

Add User Access Reporting for Product Entitlements and Permissions

Administrators need a supported UI-based reporting capability in Data Product Hub to list which users have access to which products for audit purposes. Currently, administrators need a consolidated view that shows user access across products, serv...
3 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Submitted