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:


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    Workload Misplacement Due to Inconsistent Node Affinity Control Impacts Platform Stability

    All non-VPC workloads must support node affinity to ensure proper scheduling on specific nodes (e.g., standard vs GPU workers). In OCP environments running IBM Cloud Pak for Data / IBM Software Hub, clusters often include both standard and GPU wor...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

    Enable streamlined and validated import and deployment of custom foundation models on watsonx.ai SaaS

    Who would benefit from it? Straker plans to run Tiri, its own Gemma 3-based model, as a custom foundation model on watsonx.ai SaaS for SwiftBridge AI v2, Straker's IR translation solution. A streamlined and validated import and deployment flow wou...
    8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Studio (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted

    Category Import Summary Does Not Indicate Rejected Governance Artifacts

    During category import, the process may complete successfully even when some governance artifacts (e.g., Data Classes) are skipped or rejected. While these issues may be recorded in the log file, the import summary provides no clear indication tha...
    16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Test certificates are created in namespace "cert-manager", not in the project namespace during installation

    During the Cloud Pak for Data installation / upgrade the cert-manager is checked by creating certificates.cert-manager.io k8s objects in the cert-manager namespace. The cert-manager is a namespace, managed by the RedHat cert-manager Operator, so t...
    about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

    Expose runtime observability metrics for custom foundation models on watsonx.ai SaaS

    Who would benefit from it? Straker plans to run Tiri, its own Gemma 3-based model, as a custom foundation model on watsonx.ai SaaS for SwiftBridge AI v2, Straker's IR translation solution. This capability would also benefit other partners and ente...
    10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Machine Learning (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted

    Provide MDE Governance Change Summary Report for Pre-Publish Review

    Provide a UI-based report that compares metadata before and after an MDE run and summarizes all changes made to assets and columns. The report should include counts of governance and data quality attributes that were assigned, modified, suggested,...
    20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Using a Custom Root Certificate for Secure Db2U for OLTP Instance Creation in CP4D

    The customer would like to request that the platform provide official support for security certificate customization for Db2U for OLTP and Db2Wh running on CP4D, either by: Allowing customization via injection in the Db2U for OLTP or Db2Wh CR yaml...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 2 Under review

    Improve the resilience, scalability, observability, and self-recovery of the IKC internal messaging layer, including reassessment of RabbitMQ for high-volume Metadata Enrichment workloads.

    IBM Knowledge Catalog uses RabbitMQ as part of its internal asynchronous processing architecture. In large Metadata Enrichment environments, messaging availability and consumption rates can become critical dependencies for the overall stability of...
    20 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

    Unifying Audit logs

    Reference to Case number TS021471996 Audit logs should contain display name instead of Project/Catalog/Asset internal ID (Same with roles and users added to projects or catalogs) which is non relevant to SOC team while inspecting incoming logs in ...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

    Permit resizing individual columns (especially in the New Transformer)

    In general, all stages that offer editing the input and output columns have a difficulty of displaying the full information and there seems to be no way to resize the display of individual columns. The default space seems even more narrow than nec...
    7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

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