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:


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,


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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.

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    Query migration from existing query processor to IBM Query browser

    TSYS/FIS is integrating its infrastructure platform to IBM bases services. The existing query browser saves client queries where clients can execute the queries anytime to get the data from the existing datalake. After migrating to IBM platforms t...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 1 Submitted

    Remove Cluster Admin Role from the installation/upgrade/runtime of shared cluster components (License Manager, Certificate Manager)

    In banking environments, roles are clearly segregated between teams (e.g., Infrastructure team, Application team). For day-to-day operations and application upgrades, the Application team should not require Cluster Admin privileges, as the respons...
    about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Planned for future release

    Support Snowflake Session Output Format Configuration in JDBC Connection

    Currently, Snowflake connectivity depends on user/account-level settings for DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT and TIMESTAMP_OUTPUT_FORMAT. This requires customers to manually update Snowflake user configurations before establishing a connection. Please consider...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

    Execution Order of Before SQL and SELECT with Runtime Column Propagation Enabled in Redshift connector.

    When Runtime Column Propagation (RCP) is enabled in Redshift connector, DataStage executes the SELECT statement during the stage check phase to infer metadata. If the SELECT depends on a table or view created dynamically in Before SQL, the job fai...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

    DataStage must allow developers to choose a Github branch to commit

    Github branch is enabled at project level. This can only be updated by accessing project settings. This raised two concerns. 1. Developers are forced to commit all jobs into the same branch. They do not have an option to choose a different branch ...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    /resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

    This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

    Need an API to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one

    As per this case TS022084372, we have got to know like there is no API exist currently to "retrieve" API key only without revoking the old one for LDAP/SAML user profiles. we need this API to troubleshoot/debug profiles issues over tenant scripts .
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    Offer an opt‑in premium “Robert mode” that uses higher‑capability model combinations at increased Bobcoin cost.

    Enterprise customers are willing to pay materially more for higher reasoning depth, reliability, and autonomy for complex, multi‑repo work, and a premium tier gives teams and consultancies access to stronger model mixes while maintaining cost tran...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Provide a native mode to run Bob as an HTTP server exposing RESTful APIs.

    An API‑first deployment allows Bob to be embedded into portals, internal tools, and automated systems, benefiting platform teams and partners orchestrating agent workflows at scale; this should include authenticated REST endpoints for job submissi...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Add hooks support to let customers execute custom logic at defined points in Bob’s lifecycle (pre‑run, post‑run, tool invocation, failure events).

    Hooks enable enterprise integration for logging, policy enforcement, approvals, and observability, benefiting platform, DevOps, and security teams embedding Bob into existing pipelines; Bob should expose configurable pre‑run, post‑run, tool‑call, ...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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