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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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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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Make available Knowledge Accelerators in French

Make available the Knowledge Accelerators in French or translate them in the product. Quebec has legal requirements to do business in Franch.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Not under consideration

Request to have a refresh icon in the catalogs assets column section.

When we navigate to catalog asset page there we are able to see all the details of the asset like column section, business terms and governance artifacts. Now when we are trying to update a business term in the column section to see the updated re...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

GenAI assistant to talk with ADDI

It would be great if we could interact with all the data that ADDI has using a GenAI like assistant, so It would be like asking the most senior developer/product owner about all the components that addi discovers.

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

WXCA4Z to explain Assembler language code, transform assembler to Metal C and COBOL code to C/C++

While we run some JAVA code, most of our code is COBOL code that is optimized for the z15 and above. We don't really want to convert that code to JAVA, but would love to convert it to C/C++. Also, as us old-time assembler coders retire, we need a ...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Auto update capability for Reporting Feature.

As of now in the Reporting feature when we try to start a reporting for few catalogs and projects and it's successfully gets completed after couple of hours and it will be idle, so here the ask is after the Reporting gets completed, next day I'll ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Need MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

IKC reporting to Google Big Query

Please add Google Big Query as an option for IKC reporting in addition to the existing DB2, Oracle, and PostGres options.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Request for API to search with Partial name of the Project/Catalog

Let's say I have 20 to 30 projects which are unique in their naming convention, Let's say I’m using the Naming Convention as follows: Eg: Structure of Project Name: <Application Code>_<Application Name> Exact name using the Structure: ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists