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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:


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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,


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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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Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

wxO outage notifications sent directly to clients.

Customers have expressed a need to know if their wxO instances have been affected when there is a regional outage. For example, today (10.20.25) us-east-1 instance experienced a outage and although it appears to be functioning normally the custome...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamic runtime alteration of LLM configs (temperature, reasoning effort, etc)

Can we have more control over how a supervisor agent assembles its message to its collaborators? We'd like to be able to make this more consistent so there is less variance in the user experience and results can be more easily replicated. I've att...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

Text to Speech voice testing greater than 100 characters

Currently in the environment Phone integration section of assistant, Text to Speech tab, there is a testing section. This section limits testing text input to 100 characters. The ask is to provide a way for a person testing voices on this screen t...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance

To enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment (e.g., Dev or Staging) into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance. This would allow teams to isolate environments and maintain complian...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Release 32-bit version of Informix CSDK v4.50

Some customers are constrained and need to continue to use Informix 32-bit CSDK drivers. Their applications currently use the Informix 32-bit libraries & there are often build constraints to moving to a 64-bit CSDK.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 5 Not under consideration

wxO on AWS supports private path using AWS PrivateLink

What is AWS PrivateLink : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/what-is-privatelink.html Problem to solve: Customers who are hosted on AWS may require private paths to connect their WxO instance on AWS to their on-premise environment ...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0

Customizable Waiting Messages During Agent and Tool Processing

Enhance watsonx Orchestrate by allowing administrators and developers to configure custom waiting messages that are displayed to users while agents, tools, or workflows are processing requests. Currently, users may receive generic system-generated...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0