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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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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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Custom Auth/Authz layer support

US Federal Government customer has their own custom authorization layer for applications. Internally they support an ABAC based infrastructure. Therefore they have a more complex authorization layer than standard roles/groups. Need to have the abi...
about 7 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Functionality already exists

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

RAG Compiler/static analysis tool output

In order to support features like /resolve and to improve code gen, providing the output of the compiler and static analysis tools that are relevant to the current context in a retrievel augmented generation fahsion would be helpful (in the case o...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

Authentication Provider (multiple) Preselection in SoftwareHub

1. Overview Software Hub allows multiple authentication providers to be configured. These providers are displayed on the login page as a drop-down list from which users can select their preferred authentication provider. Currently, users must manu...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

Dark Mode

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Support Elasticsearch SIEM for audit events

We use Elasticsearch for SIEM. As confirmed by the support: "At this time, Elasticsearch is not an officially supported SIEM sink for zen-audit. The primary supported outputs are Splunk HEC and syslog. The inclusion of the Elasticsearch plugin in ...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review