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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    Private context variables

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
    about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
    about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

    VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

    Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
    about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

    The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

    As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
    about 2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

    Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

    We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
    4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

    Lineage for Dynamic views

    In IBM Knowledge Catalog, there is a special asset type called "dynamic view" that allows you to create an asset based on an SQL query. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=project-adding-dynamic-view-data-from-connection A...
    8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

    Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

    LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
    12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

    wx.ai Synthetic Data - Allow the user to insert formulas and code to generate synthetic data

    Currently, wx.ai Synthetic Data works with the statistical model identified in the source column and generates the data according to the identified pattern without allowing customization by the user. For example, if the column contains numbers the...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

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