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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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Multi-language support for agentic workflows

Be able to automatically translate the output of an agentic workflow (text extractions, display message, forms, etc.) to the user original language. Right now, we have no full multilingual capacity other than creating a different agentic workflow ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Planned for future release

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
15 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Provide a management system into IBM WCA4z to provide KPI

To meet a critical client requirement, we are seeking support to be available one management system into IBM WCA4z. This management system could be integrated with another solution, such as Watsonx Governance, which provides information such as wh...
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

DB2 - Correlation Identifier for RACF Access Checks Triggered by DB2 (FASTAUTH)

Description of Current Situation: We recently migrated from Db2 internal authorization to RACF-based Db2 Security using RACF profiles. Functional behavior is correct, but transparent and auditable reporting of Db2 access decisions is currently not...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
15 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
21 days ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
5 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 5 Under review

Watsonx.ai on-prem monitoring of token & compute usage

At present, WatsonX.ai software does not support automated extraction of Large Language Model (LLM) usage metrics. Although token usage information is accessible, it is often buried within log files or only displayed in the prompt lab window. For ...
9 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review