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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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Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
about 12 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Reduce steps in creation of Governance Artifacts

When I create an artifact, I have to do at least 2 clicks to create the same type of assets again. Instead of just having the create option, can we have a create and new option so that we can continue with same artifacts with lesser clicks.
2 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Import Business Metadata

My customer has business metadata (Business terms, free-text comments) created in project documentation that they wish to import into IKC to match up with the technical metadata scanned from data repositories. This idea is for an import mechanism ...
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

FOOTPRINT : Lightweight “XS T-shirt” deployment for IKC (CP4D) – extendable to wx.data intelligence

Customers are increasingly asking for a significantly smaller footprint option for IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC). Current deployments require substantial resources, even in development or POC environments where workloads are limited and only a small...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Customized views for different Personas

Provide alternate look and feel and re-prioritized search results based upon different personas or groups of users. Roles, Groups, and/or association to data domains could give easier viewing of data for technical users from business as well as fr...
23 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history

Governance Rule to show related Data Quality Rule run history without needing to open the data rule and not even having read access to project. Already at the moment one can view on governance rule side definition and binding of the Data quality r...
13 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

Allow Modification of Grid View Columns

We can define custom properties for categories, business terms, etc. but we cannot put them in the grid views. We request an administrative panel to modify the columns shown in the grid views across the platform, which would support the addition o...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

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.,...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration