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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.

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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CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) Feature in IBM Data Intelligence (watsonx.data)

In IBM Data Intelligence / watsonx.data, CBR (Context‑Based Restrictions) is a security and governance feature provided by IBM Cloud IAM that adds an extra layer of access control beyond roles and permissions. Context‑Based Restrictions (CBR) rest...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Integration with Databricks Unity Catalog

We are seeing a lot of Databricks Customers who are using the Databricks UC. So, if we can add a step to push the assets from projects in the Databricks UC in addition to our own Catalog, we would be able to satisfy customers requirements.
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Provide an estimated Bob Coins cost before running a task

Before starting a Bob task, users should be able to see an estimate of how many Bob Coins the operation is expected to consume. Today, the actual cost of a complex task can be difficult for a user to anticipate. This becomes particularly important...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Allow administrators/users to mandate a specific model

IBM Bob intelligently selects AI models depending on the task, which is a useful default behaviour. However, enterprise customers should also have the ability to require a specific model for certain tasks, projects, repositories, or categories of ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

Provide model-level traceability for every IBM Bob task

IBM Bob can dynamically select different AI models depending on the task being performed. This is a very interesting approach from a performance and cost perspective, but enterprise users should be able to know which model was actually used for ea...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Integration with ZEKE job scheduler

Currently ADDI only supports CA7 job scheduler integration. We use Zeke in our organization, can you please add Zeke integration to ADDI?
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add schema filter to governance catalog search

User wants to be able to filter by Schema when searching through the governance catalog, however that is not possible. In Global Search there is a filter for Schema and it finds the schema in the catalog, but searching directly inside the catalog ...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Custom Enrichment Objective

Allow a custom enrichment objective (example from a notebook job or other process data asset) that allows the enrichment of custom attributes, which can either be pre-defined at design time or created dynamically at runtime during the enrichment p...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information