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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.,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Add DBNAME (Database/Domain) Visibility for Db2 for z/OS Assets on IBM Knowledge Catalog

Large Db2 for z/OS environments commonly use DBNAME as the primary logical structure to organize transactional systems, business domains, and data ownership boundaries. Today, IBM Knowledge Catalog imports Db2 for z/OS assets without exposing the ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Include transform feature from Natural to Java

Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 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...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration