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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.

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.

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Introduce skills.md support so Bob can load persistent, user‑defined skills and behaviors from the repository.

Skills files allow teams to codify repeatable workflows, conventions, and agent behaviors that improve consistency and productivity across large codebases, benefiting enterprise engineering teams and consultancies; Bob should automatically load sk...

Enable Bob to perform live web searches as a first‑class agent capability.

Without live web search, Bob cannot reliably assist with modern engineering workflows involving fast‑changing libraries, APIs, vulnerabilities, or documentation, limiting usefulness for developers, consultants, and platform teams; Bob should expos...

Add a BobShell configuration option to explicitly disable built‑in tools (e.g., read_file, write_file) at runtime, similar to --disabled-tools flags offered by other agentic coding assistants.

Enterprise customers need deterministic and policy‑compliant agent behavior, and the ability to disable specific built‑in tools allows security, platform, and compliance teams to constrain Bob’s capabilities in regulated, air‑gapped, or controlled...

Proposal for a Proactive Platform Monitoring and Health Check System

We are currently encountering significant issues during our backup executions. We face database inconsistencies and version mismatches in the cpbr scripts, among other errors. Because these problems are only discovered during the backup process it...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

WCA@IBM Visual Studio Code extension should support web version

If I launch the extension in Visual Studio Code desktop, it works perfectly.But when I tried to launch it in the Dev Spaces / Che-Code ( Visual Studio Code downstream projects ), I faced some issues. First, the login URL is a bit different. This i...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Needs more information

Cloud Pak Configuration as Code

We have 3 Installations of Cloud Pak for Data (Stages - PROD, QA, BUILD) and would need the ability to configure the hole instance in a git repository. To Configure Cloud Pak for Data "ArgoCD" like as code in yaml form. Why do we need this: It is ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

Allow Db2 connection without password

When creating Db2 connection, for example Db2 for Z or Db2 for Datastage, the password field is mandatory. This prevents creation of connections that use certificates for authentication (because those don't need password). Even if a random passwor...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity 0 Submitted

Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

Adopt AWS Native Redshift Drivers Instead of IBM-Provided Redshift Drivers

Why is it useful? The AWS-provided native Redshift drivers are actively maintained and regularly updated by AWS to incorporate the latest performance optimizations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. In contrast, the IBM-provided Redshift driver...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review