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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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Read only / Write toggle for Admin

A toggle in Workbench, ideally per object but if not possible for all objects in one go, to disallow Admin who is using the toggle, to change any objects. A similar solution exists in SAP BW workbench, where the default setting for admins when wor...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support meta llama-3-3-70b-instruct on watsonx.ai on Gaudi 3 accelerators

Client needs to scale out an application using watsonx.ai (5.2) to a cluster with Intel Gaudi 3 GPUs. The application has a dependency on llama-3-3-70b-instruct. Multiple prompts have been handcrafted to give exact correct result using this specif...
4 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Ability to edit the knowledge generation configuration in the UI

I have found that the formatting of agent responses can only be achieved effectively through the generation configuration knowledge settings in the ADK, rather than through the behavioural prompts or guidelines. This means live demos are always go...
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
4 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

SFTP Client Origin: Additional Offset Management Configuration Options

The current offset behavior of the SFTP Client origin is based on two checks after a file is processed: The stage stores the filename and modification timestamp of the last processed file in the offset. When new files arrive, the stage evaluates e...
7 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

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 ...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 Under review

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Custom Enrichment Objective

Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
27 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Agent Release Details Display

Display key agent metadata on the frontend, including the internal name (not just the display name), release version, and release date. This way, users can easily identify which version of each agent is currently active across the Chat, Manage, an...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration