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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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Show Validation Status and Date at Catalog Level

Currently, descriptions are being validated with functional teams at the Project level. We propose transferring these validations to the catalog level, so that users can see that a description has been validated and since when. This would provide ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Show Catalog Last Update Date at Top Level

Currently, when viewing catalogs, the date displayed at the top level corresponds to the creation date. We propose displaying the last update date instead. This would allow users to immediately see when the catalog was last modified, improving vis...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Inline code complete and cursor shortcut to generate code directly where my cursor is

I want to begin to type code manually, and have the assistant present an autocompletion based on what it thinks I am trying to do. Let me either ignore it or use it. When I want to use natural language to generate code, let me keep focus in the ed...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Future consideration

Ability to save 'canvas' views/releationships in 'Relationship explorer' for references and team collaboration.

Once a 'Relationship Explorer' canvas is created (mapped out), it would be very beneficial to have the ability to save this 'cavnas' view add other collaborators to this view. I know we already have a share option, however this feature is a point ...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Understanding usage of catalog assets by business users interacting with the catalog

It would be good to understand if our cataloged assets are actually being used by business users. Which Assets are being used more than others. This would allow us to plan for future resource allocation and what we need to keep in our catalog vs w...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Modify import export process Data classes

Modify the import export process for data classes free of XML and support regex or lookup process Sample file to be provided - see attached.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Categorization of Custom Attributes List and Hiding Empty Fields

Users would benefit from categorizing fields in the Custom Attributes list to make them easier to find. Additionally, the ability to hide empty fields is considered a very useful feature.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists