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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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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...

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

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 5 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...

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration