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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    Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

    Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

    SSO - Federation for developer users

    Currently with SaaS deployment only admins requires IBM ID, developers need then to be added 'locally' by administrator.We have a RFP for WCA (general) SaaS, target is 5K developers. 5K developers is using managing manually, and client is asking f...
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

    The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that we can use the Vanity urls instead of using cluster DNS suffixes, which is against Ford policy.

    The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

    The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that we can use the Vanity urls instead of using cluster DNS suffixes, which is against Ford policy.

    The grpc-cpd route currently does not support customizing or renaming the route. At this time, the platform only supports using the default route name that is automatically created for gRPC traffic. We need this functionality for the route so that...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

    Validation of inputs based on rules

    At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
    almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

    Detailed dataset flow diagram

    ADDI or WCA4Z Understand need more detailed dataset flow diagram and linking to source feature to win customer.What customer expected to ADDI was that in addition to visualizations like the attached detailed dataflow diagram with information of pr...
    8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

    Oauth authentication for email notification

    In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

    CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes - Addition of version name to the Dialog box.

    This is in continuation of case #TS015396049. As of today, When two users open the same flow and one user change the flowed and saved it. There is a popup which gets displayed with the second user on who changed it and time as well. in addition to...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 1 Under review

    Generating Dataset record layout option should be available for the files in program flow graph

    Hi Team, Once program flow graph is generated which is having references to files, If we right click on file it shows only Filter and properties option. Currently we should copy the file name and go to explore project , select Dataset record struc...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

    Impact analysis based on Data flow graph

    Hi Team, Currently when we generate data flow graph , it goes with JCL/PROC/STEP/DD/Files hierarchy. We can show the control flow clearly from source file to destination file. At the same time if we have to show the data traceability from one of t...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

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