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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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Increase Width of Search/Replace Input Fields in PAW Rules Editor and Process Editor Find/Replace Dialog (Better Space Utilization)

Hello dear team, Idea Summary / Business Case: In IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), the Find/Replace dialog (opened via Ctrl+F in Rules Editor or TurboIntegrator Process Editor) uses extremely narrow, fixed-width input fields for "Find" and ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 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.,...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 5 Future consideration

Set Synchronisation Group by hierarchy

Currently, Visualisations in PAW are attached to 1 synchronisation group This means that if you want to have 2 visualisations which are synched to the same sheet level selectors, except for 1 hierarchy where you want to used separate visualisation...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Building Reliable flows with Orchestration Pipelines

When working with data pipelines , failures can occur at multiple stages due to network disruptions, database outages, or incorrect transformations. Enterprise environments requires reliability, since some pipelines can be used to mission-critical...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Direct Assignment of Filters/Selectors to Specific Tabs in PAW Books (Tab-Specific Synchronization Without Custom Groups)

Dear team, Business Case / Summary: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) Books, selectors/filters can be synchronized globally (Book scope) or via custom synchronization groups (assigning widgets to groups for tab-specific sync). However, there i...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Extend watsonx Code Assistant for Z – Optimize to support PL/I performance analysis and optimization.

Many enterprise z/OS customers still run important workloads in PL/I, especially in banking and insurance. Today Optimize works well for COBOL, but PL/I is not supported, so teams still rely on manual analysis or a few experienced PL/I experts to ...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 9 Under review

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Add support for Before SQL file and After SQL file e in the Redshift connector, similar to the existing functionality in the Teradata connector.

Our organization is currently migrating from Teradata to Amazon Redshift, and we have discovered a significant gap between the Teradata connector and the Redshift connector in IBM DataStage. The Teradata connector currently provides the ability to...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Differentiate API Success Responses When No File Is Uploaded (Volume API / upFile Handling)

Problem Statement When calling the CP4D Volume API to upload a file, the endpoint returns the same generic “Success” response in two different cases: A file is actually uploaded, and No file is uploaded (e.g., due to a missing @ in curl or an auto...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted