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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Migrate agents from global to private workspace without generating a new ID

Client was attempting to restrict user access to global workspaces which is not currently possible. Our suggestion was that the client move some of their agents to private workspaces so that they can control who has access. However the client ment...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Under review

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Not under consideration

Enable Private Endpoints for watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud

We have a client who is considering integrating their existing agentic platform with watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) in the future running as a SaaS offering on IBM Cloud. However, their security and compliance policies do not allow outbound or inbound ...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 7

Protection against viruses or malwares in files submitted in flows

In wxO, we can request to the user to upload a file that can be analysed by Orchestrate. For instance, Document Extractor and Text Extractor are proposed in the Flow Builder. In any flow that uses one of these components or imports a file from a u...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Login support with both IBM ID and SSO for watsonx Orchestrate on AWS

By default, watsonx Orchestrate on AWS allows users to log in using their IBM ID. Additionally, Single Sign-On (SSO) login can be enabled upon request. However, once SSO login is enabled, logging in with an IBM ID is no longer possible. In custome...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Dayforce as an out of the box skill

Watsonx Orchestrate as platform for HR business users (AskHR). Having OTB connections with multiple HR platforms will make the creations of business flows quick and maximize on employee productivity
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 9 Not under consideration

New configuration parameter to enable sbspace logging by default

Instances that are replicated must have smart large objects logged so that they are copied to secondary servers. This is not the default, and one of the following is required when setting up the sbspace: onspaces -s -S ... -Df LOGGING=ONonspaces -...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Under review

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

Backup Individual database, not entire instance

Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration